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• Care worker sleep-in pay ruling risks becoming a nightmare | Matthew Wort

  11-02-2020 13:16
  
  With council budgets at breaking point, services need more resources to protect a sector already in crisisThis year will be social care’s hardest yet. Planned increases to the national living wage and national minimum wage arrive at a critical time for a sector brought to its knees by cuts.But the government has given little consideration to the implications wage rises will have on UK care providers and the wellbeing of those who rely on their services. Continue reading...
  
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• 'It felt like being kidnapped': the trauma of short stays in foster care

  11-02-2020 12:00
  
  Every year, about 17,000 children are taken from their families only to be returned within days. The impact can be lifelongThis story is a collaborative project between The Marshall Project and Searchlight New MexicoThe children usually arrived in the dead of night, silent and terrified.For two years, Daniel Derkacs and Ashley Keiler-Green, foster parents in Albuquerque, New Mexico, regularly took in kids whose parents were suspected of abusing or neglecting them. Sometimes, as the couple scramb
  
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• Nationwide initiative provides unique solution to support increasing isolation of men

  11-02-2020 07:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The nationwide launch of Countrymen UK Clubs allows men with health issues to access support services in an environment they understand Countrymen UK is an exciting new nationwide initiative providing a unique solution designed to support the increasing isolation of men who find themselves unable to access the countryside work and leisure environments because of […]
  
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