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• People with stroke who walk 30 minutes per day may have 54% lower risk of early death

  11-08-2021 23:51
  A new study shows that people who walk or garden at least three to four hours per week, or bike at least two to three hours per week, or the equivalent after having a stroke may have a 54% lower risk of early death from any cause. The study found the most benefit for younger stroke survivors. When people under the age of 75 exercised at least that amount, their risk of early death was reduced by 80%.
  
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• Revealed: England’s pandemic crisis of child abuse, neglect and poverty

  11-08-2021 17:00
  
  Foster places in short supply and council budgets buckling as social service referrals increase by up by 40% in some areasAnalysis: shocking if not surprisingA social worker’s tale: ‘FaceTime isn’t enough’A looming crisis of children suffering abuse, neglect and poverty has been exposed, with growing numbers of young people taken into care in some of England’s most deprived communities during the pandemic.A Guardian investigation into the state of children’s s
  
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• No government hoping to level up can ignore the social care crisis harming England’s children | Anne Longfield

  11-08-2021 17:00
  
  Covid has amplified many of the problems facing vulnerable children, but the country’s care system was already falling apartAnne Longfield is the former children’s commissioner for EnglandEven before Covid arrived, local authority children’s services were struggling to cope as children with more complex and expensive needs have entered the care system. As today’s Guardian investigation reveals, the bandages and sticking plasters that have held a creaking children’s
  
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• ‘FaceTime isn’t enough’: the struggle to protect England’s at-risk children

  11-08-2021 17:00
  
  Covid school closures and virtual visits making job harder in an already stretched system, says social workerThroughout her 20-year social work career, Esmée Peters (not her real name) has always had families that have stayed in her mind long after the end of the working day. “You can’t sleep at night because you’re worried what might happen to them and … if they’re going to be safe,” she says.But when schools closed during the pandemic, and now during
  
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• Crisis in children’s services in England is shocking if not surprising

  11-08-2021 17:00
  
  Analysis: with resources eviscerated by austerity cuts, the pandemic has made the problems more acute The problems faced by England’s children’s services described in the Guardian’s investigation – buckling under the weight of youngsters taken into care and struggling to help vulnerable families in need – are shocking if not surprising. This is a crisis that has been long brewing. The pandemic has made it even more acute.Three years ago, the Conservative MP and form
  
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• Sunrise of Hale Barns Resident Completes Incredible Book

  11-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One resident at Sunrise of Hale Barns care home has recently received the green light for the publication of their book.After an initial draft, Brian Green OBE, 87, has had his book, ‘The Analysis of Human Haemoglobin variants using Mass Spectrometry’, produced ready for publication, with the support of his company, Waters.Brian has spent much of his life devoted to the design, construction, and use of a scientific instrument called a mass spectrometer.An early pioneer for the device
  
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