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• Spending review 2020: the winners and losers in Sunak's statement

  25-11-2020 23:38
  
  Our writers on the implications for education, defence, health and moreThe NHS in England has been given £3bn extra next year to tackle the huge backlog of operations cancelled because of Covid and the spike in mental illness caused by the pandemic. Continue reading...
  
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• 'They don't see themselves as heroes': England's social workers hailed for Covid response

  25-11-2020 11:57
  
  With social work awards on hold, a virtual celebration will highlight innovation, compassion - and community supportCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEarly in the coronavirus pandemic, duty social worker Dan Smart took a call from someone worried about the wellbeing of their elderly father, living alone in a village and fiercely proud of his independence. But rather than trigger an intervention that he sensed would not have been welcome, Smart instead got in touch
  
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• Christmas Covid guidance for older care home residents ‘heartbreaking'

  25-11-2020 01:14
  
  Alzheimer’s Society says relatives in ‘despair’ at England’s restrictions against over-65s Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA charity has called it “heartbreaking” that care home residents over 65 will not be allowed to join loved ones at Christmas, despite an easing of restrictions over the festive period.Families will be allowed to reunite when measures are temporarily eased from 23 to 27 December, allowing three households t
  
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