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• Number of missing vulnerable children soars as safeguarding is cut during pandemic

  06-06-2020 14:35
  
  Government move to reduce protection sees unaccompanied youngsters targeted by traffickers and criminalsTrafficked and unaccompanied children are going missing in “significant” numbers from the UK’s care system following a government move to dramatically reduce protection for youngsters, the Observer can reveal. Three charities have documented an “alarming” series of cases since the beginning of lockdown and following legislation introduced in April that stripp
  
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• HPC Sells Purpose Built Care Home for Long-Standing Client

  06-06-2020 08:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  HPC has acted for the vendors in the sale of Prospect House Care Home in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The property is entirely purpose built, and provides well laid out accommodation for 33 residents across two floors, most of which have en-suite bedrooms. Prospect House had operated within a larger group of homes for many years, […]
  
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• Care home residents foot £100 a week for coronavirus costs

  06-06-2020 08:06
  
  Older people and families asked to pay bill on top of usual fees as homes reel from cost of PPE and staff absencesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSome older people who fund their own care home fees are being forced to pay a steep and unexpected coronavirus bill by their care provider, it has been revealed.Older people and their families are being asked to pay more than £100 a week on top of their usual care home fees, with homes saying the cost of PPE and
  
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