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• Act now to meet global heart disease targets, experts urge

  24-11-2020 17:13
  
  Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of mortality in Europe, and World Health Organization (WHO) heart disease goals will not be achieved by 2025 unless urgent action is taken. A new document provides numbers of people with heart conditions, death rates, and levels of risk factors including obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.
  
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• Gavin Williamson unlawfully removed child safeguards in pandemic, court rules

  24-11-2020 17:08
  
  Education secretary failed to consult children’s agencies over changes, judges findCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe education secretary, Gavin Williamson, acted unlawfully in removing safeguards for children in care at the start of the Covid pandemic without consulting children’s rights organisations, the court of appeal has ruled.The children’s rights charity Article 39 launched a legal challenge after the Department for Education removed o
  
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• World's first: Drug guides stem cells to desired location, improving their ability to heal

  24-11-2020 16:10
  
  Scientists have created a drug that can lure stem cells to damaged tissue and improve treatment efficacy -- a scientific first and major advance for the field of regenerative medicine.
  
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• Trevor Elliott: We can't stop caring for children because of Covid

  24-11-2020 14:33
  
  The former football coach and youth worker on how he became a foster carer aged 25 and set up a children’s home during the pandemicGrowing up on a south London estate in the early 2000s, Trevor Elliott believed there were just four ways his future was likely to pan out: drugs, prison, gangs or crime.Little did he know that by the age of 25, he would become one of the UK’s youngest foster carers – far below the average age of 45 to 54 – and that just four years later, he w
  
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• Norman Lamb: Covid is widening inequality for young people

  24-11-2020 09:00
  
  The former Lib Dem MP and care minister on the need for a resilience taskforce to reduce the psychological fallout of the pandemicThe former care minister Sir Norman Lamb is uncharacteristically irritated by the government’s neglect of social care and mental health during the Covid pandemic and the years leading up to it. “This current crisis simply strengthens the case for confronting it [the social care funding gap]. But the combination of failing to confront it and the state of pu
  
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• Will our care home residents soon be able to enjoy hugs from family again? | Robin Hall

  24-11-2020 08:30
  
  In this lockdown, limited visiting has been allowed. But advances in vaccines and testing bring the hope of more human contact
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWe are in touch with some of the care homes in Hampshire that are taking part in the new pilot visitor testing scheme that will allow residents two indoor visits a week and to touch and embrace their loved ones. And we hope this will be rolled out more widely soon.In the meantime, our 29-bed nursing home i
  
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• 'Bad parent': children's watchdog to accuse state of care failings in England

  24-11-2020 08:00
  
  Anne Longfield will deliver speech giving damning indictment of social care systemThe children’s commissioner for England will deliver a damning indictment of children’s social care in a speech on Tuesday and accuse the state of too often being a “bad parent”.Anne Longfield, who is coming to the end of her tenure, has become increasingly vociferous about the shortcomings of the care system, which she accuses of failing thousands of vulnerable children who are falling thro
  
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