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• Judy Hildebrand obituary

  01-08-2021 18:42
  
  My friend Judy Hildebrand, who has died aged 86, was one of the first family therapists in the UK, and was clinical director of the Institute of Family Therapy from 1987 to 1994.She was born in Charlton, south London, the youngest daughter of Anita (nee Hyams), a concert level pianist, and Kenneth Nyman, a maths teacher and art house cinema owner. Sent to the US with her elder sisters, Helene and Valerie, during the second world war in 1940, the experience of separation from her parents fed into
  
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• When moral pieties get in the way of doing the right thing, children suffer | Sonia Sodha

  01-08-2021 10:00
  
  The 1980s child abuse scandal reminds us that now, as then, being ‘on the side of the angels’ has to be backed with actionA council’s most important job is not emptying the bins or filling in potholes, the stuff most people see day to day. It has by far and away one of the most important jobs anyone could have: to be a parent. Local authorities, between them, have parental responsibility for more than 100,000 children in care in the UK. These are some of society’s most vu
  
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• Police review teen killings in search of catalyst for spike in murders

  01-08-2021 08:45
  
  Pilot scheme hopes to discover patterns that will help prevent more deathsMeasures are being introduced to try to identify what is driving rising murder rates in the wake of a spike in teenage deaths in some of the UK’s homicide hotspots.All homicides in London, Birmingham and south Wales will be reviewed by the authorities in an attempt to learn from the chaotic sequences of events that often preempt a death. Continue reading...
  
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