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• Child refugees were ‘dumped’ in unsafe hotel, claims Brighton council

  25-09-2021 17:11
  
  Law firm says attempts to evaluate a 15-year-old Afghan held in a hotel had been prevented, breaching the child’s rightsFresh concern over the plight of thousands of refugees living in UK hotels has emerged after a council requested that the Home Office shut down temporary accommodation housing child refugees over “safeguarding concerns” and a lawyer revealed how he had been blocked from assessing unaccompanied minors.Brighton and Hove city council has asked the Home Office to
  
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• UK care homes face funding crisis as banks refuse loans

  25-09-2021 16:04
  
  Providers say lenders have ‘no appetite’ for industry battered by Covid and staff crisisCare homes are facing a credit crunch with banks refusing to lend money or provide new services for fear that the care sector is about to crumble, senior care leaders have warned.A survey of care providers in Hampshire found that 20% had been told their bank was concerned about their long-term viability. Several reported that their bank said they had “no appetite for the care industry”
  
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• We can't fix the social care sector without fixing the way we treat its workers | Angela Rayner

  25-09-2021 07:00
  
  Before I was elected to parliament I was a home care worker. I know how broken the system isAngela Rayner is Labour deputy leader and shadow secretary for the future of workThe scourge of poverty wages and insecure work doesn’t just blight the lives of millions of working people, it holds back our economy too. Nowhere is this more clearly the case than in our social care sector.I know at first hand the terrible impact that our fragmented social care sector has on those working on the front
  
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