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• 'Do we have that much to fear from a 12-year-old Aboriginal kid that we need to cage them?'

  22-01-2021 20:00
  
  The youth worker: The system is broken, Daniel Daylight says, arguing that if some of the money spent on detention were funnelled into Indigenous-run programs, outcomes would be very differentAustralia’s anguish: the Indigenous kids trapped behind barsThe WA cops rounding up Indigenous kids: a ‘toxic and racist environment’
  Daniel Daylight will never forget the day a young Indigenous boy asked for bail in the children’s court so he could attend his year 6 farewell.The 33-
  
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• Sunrise Senior Living UK and Gracewell Healthcare’s CEO Awarded MBE

  22-01-2021 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dr Natalie-Jane Macdonald has been awarded an MBE for services to Healthcare in the 2021 list of New Year’s Honours.Natalie-Jane received the prestigious award in recognition of her successful 30-year career and for effectively leading Sunrise and Gracewell’s 46 care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.At the start of the pandemic, Natalie-Jane demonstrated her outstanding healthcare management skills by closing each of the organisation’s care homes in advance of official govern
  
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• Woman fined £12k for running West Yorkshire care agency illegally

  22-01-2021 08:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  A woman who ran a Morley-based domiciliary care agency has been ordered to pay over £12,000 after she admitted to providing care illegally.Beverley Bevis was fined £1,500 at Leeds Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 7 January 2021. She was also ordered to pay £10,380.91 costs and a £170 victim surcharge as a result of the prosecution brought by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).Prior to her sentencing, Mrs Bevis pleaded guilty to providing a regulated activity &nda
  
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• Care homes face devastating results of losing England's Covid jab 'lottery'

  22-01-2021 08:00
  
  Once Sussex home lost seven of 24 residents to the virus while it waited for vaccinationsA short two-mile drive past the creeks of Chichester Harbour is all that separates the Pinewood nursing home in Chidham from a similar facility in a neighbouring village. But their experiences of the campaign to vaccinate the most vulnerable could not have been more different. The two homes exemplify what has become a postcode lottery in parts of England in which the winners gain immunity from Covid and the
  
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