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• One of UK’s biggest care home operators investigated over finances

  06-10-2019 16:19
  Regulator concerned about Advinia Group’s cash flow and ability to repay loansOne of the UK’s biggest care home operators, which looks after about 3,000 elderly residents, is being investigated by regulators, heightening concerns over the state of Britain’s social care provider market.More than 150 local authorities in England and Scotland were alerted at the end of August that Advinia Group was failing to co-operate with a regulatory inquiry into its finances. Continue reading
  
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• Care home firm Advinia investigated amid fears over its finances

  06-10-2019 16:19
  Care Quality Commission concerned about group’s cash flow and ability to repay loansOne of the UK’s biggest care home operators, which looks after about 3,000 elderly residents, is being investigated by regulators, heightening concerns over the state of Britain’s social care provider market.More than 150 local authorities in England and Scotland were alerted at the end of August that Advinia Group was failing to co-operate with a regulatory inquiry into its finances. Continue r
  
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• Shame on those who defend ‘the loving smack’ – it’s just plain violence against children | Catherine Bennett

  06-10-2019 10:00
  As Scotland moves on, the young in the rest of Britain will continue to sufferBack in 2012 – around the same time, it appears, that he was starting his tech lessons with Jennifer Arcuri – Boris Johnson, as mayor of London, reached out to anxious smackers.Following the 2011 London riots, some parents, including the Tottenham MP David Lammy, thought Labour’s 2004 restrictions on hitting might be partly to blame for the disorder. These constraints, Lammy said, meant his constituen
  
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