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• The Guardian view on unregulated children’s homes: a national scandal | Editorial

  12-03-2020 19:50
  
  All children require care, and new rules about placing under-16s should extend to older teenagers tooThere were several problems with last month’s announcement by the education secretary, Gavin Williamson, that the government would ban the placement of looked-after children under 16 in unregulated accommodation in England. The most obvious was that it is perfectly clear that this should have happened a long time ago. What on earth are we doing, is surely the only sensible reaction, upon le
  
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• A budget that can barely mask the damage done | Letters

  12-03-2020 19:01
  
  Readers respond to the contents of the chancellor’s “giveaway” budgetAditya Chakrabortty’s analysis of the budget (Johnsonism’s first budget is floating on hype and hot air, 12 March) does an excellent job of explaining that while it may be a move away from the austerity politics of the last 10 years, it is certainly not what we would have hoped for from a Labour budget in terms of helping the have-nots rather than the haves.I’m less sure this can be called Jo
  
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• 'You can do much more than this': the people who have inspired care leavers

  12-03-2020 09:31
  
  Three care leavers talk about the relationships that have helped them thriveBenjamin Perks, 50, left a children’s home in Birmingham aged 16 with a £200 allowance, a bag of possessions, and what felt like “a complete absence of love or belonging”.The odds were stacked against him. Care leavers have poorer life chances: only a small minority enter higher education, they’re four times more likely to have a mental health problem, and are also at a disproportionate risk
  
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• Brecon care home celebrated World Book Day with intergenerational activity

  12-03-2020 08:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  A former award-winning poet and writer who founded a charity to help disabled horse lovers was among a number of care home residents meeting primary schoolchildren on World Book Day as part of an intergenerational partnership. Maureen Cameron Francis, better known as Mo, joined Year 3 pupils from Llanfaes Primary School and her fellow residents […]
  
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