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• The Guardian view on social care: time for Boris Johnson to prove his one-nation credentials | Editorial

  22-12-2019 19:30
  
  The prime minister’s healthy majority gives him the breathing space to raise the revenues needed to tackle a national scandalBritain needs the coming break. If the December election provided a splenetic denouement to a dangerously polarised period in public life, Christmas offers a chance to relax and reset the dial of the national mood to a more sustainable level. When politics does return to a divided country, which badly needs to unite and agree on something, the crisis in social care m
  
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• Girl 'repeatedly abused in care' in Sheffield visited by children's commissioner

  22-12-2019 15:45
  
  Anne Longfield takes up case of suicidal 16-year-year held in psychiatric unitThe children’s commissioner has visited a teenager who is on round-the-clock suicide watch after suffering years of abuse at the hands of grooming gangs.Anne Longfield, whose role is to protect children’s rights in England, called on Laura,* 16, to see the conditions she is being held in at a psychiatric unit for herself after being alerted by the girl’s mother. Continue reading...
  
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• Girl 'abused in care' in Sheffield visited by children's commissioner

  22-12-2019 15:45
  
  Anne Longfield takes up case of suicidal 16-year-year held in psychiatric unitThe children’s commissioner has visited a teenager who is on round-the-clock suicide watch after suffering years of abuse at the hands of grooming gangs.Anne Longfield, whose role is to protect children’s rights in England, called on Laura*, 16, to see for herself the conditions in which she is being held at a psychiatric unit after being alerted by the girl’s mother. Continue reading...
  
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