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• Free school meals campaign takes off in England – in pictures

  23-10-2020 19:26
  
  Cafe, restaurants and businesses across England have pledged to provide free food to disadvantaged children during the school half-term after footballer Marcus Rashford’s attempt to get the government to extend free school meals was defeated in the Commons this week Continue reading...
  
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• Helpless and bereaved: how Covid separated blind couple after 47 years

  23-10-2020 15:36
  
  Peter Wilkins calls for hospital and care home visits to resume in England after death of his wife, LindaCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFor their 47 years of marriage, Peter and Linda Wilkins were inseparable. Both born without sight, they met as teenagers at Henshaws school for the blind in Greater Manchester, where they became some of the best braille readers their teachers had ever produced.Linda went on to become a professional braille proofreader and Peter
  
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• Vivo Care Choices ordered to pay almost £220,000 fine as unsafe care contributes to vulnerable woman’s injury

  23-10-2020 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  A care provider has been ordered to pay almost £220,000 at Chester Magistrates’ Court, following an incident which contributed to an 89-year-old woman’s injury.
  Vivo Care Choices Limited, which runs Curzon House in Saltney, near Chester, was fined £200,000 in court on Friday 23 October 2020.
  The company previously pleaded guilty to the criminal offence of failing to provide safe care and treatment, which exposed Elli Figgins to significant risk of avoidable harm while she
  
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• Chichester care home’s birthday trio reach 302 years between them

  23-10-2020 10:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wellington Grange Care Home in Chichester. Captain Duncan Knight, resident of the home, on the event of his 100th birthday. Captain Knight was presented with a letter from the First Sea Lord by Commodore David Elford. He enjoyed a socially distanced party with his three children Michael
  Venetia, Lucinda and Michael’s wife Rita.
  Three residents of a Chichester care home – including a distinguished Royal Navy veteran – have celebrated birthdays on the same day, achieving a remark
  
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• Doncaster’s Liberty House opened by Ben Parkinson MBE

  23-10-2020 08:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  from right to left: Ben Parkinson, Home Manager Kathleen George, Deputy Manager Pippa McFarlene and Wellbeing Lead, Gail Walker
  Special guest and local hero, Ben Parkinson MBE, officially opened Liberty House in Doncaster by cutting the red ribbon alongside Runwood Homes manager, Kathleen George.
   
  Liberty House is the latest purpose-built care home in Doncaster developed by leading residential provider, Runwood Homes. The home consists of two floors of impressive, spacious and well thought
  
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• Twenty-year journey for the social service workforce

  23-10-2020 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Social service workers and the key role they have played in supporting some of Scotland’s most vulnerable citizens during COVID-19 have quite rightly been recognised as a vital part of the health and social care system.
  Their prominence and recognition come at the same time as a significant milestone are reached in the regulation of social service workers, marking a 20-year journey towards a trusted, qualified and safe workforce. Today is the deadline for the last group of workers require
  
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