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• Cash crisis forces children’s hospices in England to limit respite care

  15-06-2019 14:00
  Government accused of reneging on pledge to increase grants as funding and corporate donations fallChildren’s hospices in England are in crisis and have started turning away families because of a lack of government funding and falls in corporate donations, charities have warned.Shooting Star Children’s Hospices, which runs two children’s hospices in the south-east, will stop offering respite care from November to half the 500 local families who need it. “We are going to f
  
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• A letter to… my dad, as he settles into a care home

  15-06-2019 07:45
  ‘When you confessed you were barricading yourself in your bedroom at night, we knew you couldn’t go on living alone’: the letter you always wanted to writeLast Friday was one of the most profound days of my life. You remembered you were going to try out a new living arrangement and had packed some carrier bags to be helpful. DVDs were mixed with food waste and clothes, but we sorted out what you needed. I worried about how you would react when we arrived at the home and saw peo
  
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