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• Why are adoption numbers falling, when there are so many children in need? | Margaret Reynolds

  10-03-2021 10:00
  
  More and more young people in England are growing up in the care system. We need to make it easier for people to adoptI adopted my daughter when she was six years old. She had been in the care of a local authority pretty much since birth. Now 18, she and I both worry about the current predicament for many children in the UK who grow up with a local authority as their corporate parent, a situation exacerbated by the pandemic as lockdown puts families under pressure. “How can we change thing
  
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• Staff and families of residents at a dementia care home support Plymouth Foodbank

  10-03-2021 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Staff and families of residents at dementia care home Butterfly Lodge in St Budeaux, Plymouth, have been coming together to collect items for Plymouth Foodbank.Abby Wiseman (pictured right), manager of Butterfly Lodge was inspired to start the collection after seeing local news stories about the difficulties some local parents have been experiencing in feeding their families during lockdown.Abby said: “Following the media coverage about the need for food boxes for school pupils, we decided
  
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• Home care company achieves landmark success with third CQC outstanding rating

  10-03-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Home Instead Wimbledon and Kingston has become the first home care provider in the country to have received three consecutive CQC outstanding ratings. It’s a double celebration as the company recently delivered its millionth hour of care since opening 10 years ago.Independent regulatory body the Care Quality Commission (CQC) highlighted in its report how well-led the company is, and how supported staff were to deliver exceptional care to elderly and vulnerable people across Wimbledon and K
  
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