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• With coronavirus, the government must extend the Brexit transition period | Lisa Nandy

  09-03-2020 19:30
  
  Our businesses and our communities cannot cope with any more uncertainty during this outbreakCoronavirus is a threat to the global economy as well as to public health. Every family will be affected and those who have less will feel it the most. In a globally connected world, we are only as strong as the most vulnerable. The government must take a long-term approach to this crisis and run the country like the future matters. In a crisis, uncertainty must be minimised. That is the lesson from the
  
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• Forensic examination of bias in family courts

  09-03-2020 19:30
  
  Retired judges Glenn Brasse and Paul Collins respond to an article by Sonia Sodha. Plus letters from Colin Rowat and Eloise DownSonia Sodha says most judgments in the family courts relating to separated parents’ contact with children are never published and that there is a lack of transparency about how these decisions are made (There is a bias in family courts – but it’s not against men, Journal, 6 March). In fact, since 2014 judges are required to permit and send certain case
  
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• A budget for social infrastructure | Letters

  09-03-2020 19:30
  
  Eighteen signatories call for spending rules to be shaken up to benefit care services and marginalised groups. Plus Jeremy Beecham says local government is in dire need of a funding injectionWe welcome the government’s commitment to level up disadvantaged areas of the UK in this week’s budget. We also welcome suggestions that the chancellor is considering including spending on social infrastructure such as health, education or care as a form of infrastructure investment.Most of the t
  
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• 100th birthday celebrations at Westerham Place

  09-03-2020 12:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A resident at Westerham Place care home in Westerham has celebrated her 100th birthday with friends and family at the home.   Marjorie Day enjoyed a party with fellow residents and members of her family and received a special card from the Queen to mark the occasion.   During the Second World War, Marjorie worked […]
  
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• He calls us 'new Mum, new Dad': fostering a teen asylum seeker

  09-03-2020 10:35
  
  Salim has been with us for three years and we treat him as one of the familyMy husband and I were lucky enough to retire with good physical and mental health, but wanted to still be socially useful. After more than 60 years’ teaching experience between us, we decided to apply to be foster carers.Working with teenagers kept us young at heart, but the first question we asked the county council was: “Are we too old?” We were fast approaching 60, but there’s no age limit for
  
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• The Fremantle Trust celebrates The Year of the Nurse with Andrea Sutcliffe CBE

  09-03-2020 10:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nurses at The Fremantle Trust were thrilled when Andrea Sutcliffe CBE, Chief Executive and Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), turned up at their event at Lewin House in Aylesbury, held to celebrate the Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020.    Andrea thanked the nurses for the work they do in supporting […]
  
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