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• Scrap vaccine deadline for care-home workers or risk huge staff loss, warns provider

  04-11-2021 17:27
  
  Care homes in England log 105,000 vacancies, as Anchor and umbrella groups voice concern over ‘no jabs no jobs’ policyOne of England’s largest social care providers has urged the government to scrap the vaccination deadline for all care-home workers, warning of a risk to levels of care as data confirmed that more than 50,000 staff could quit in the country from next week.The care provider Anchor said it was poised to lose about 120 staff because of the “no jabs no jobs&rd
  
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• Delay vaccine deadline for care-home workers or risk huge staff loss, warns provider

  04-11-2021 17:27
  
  Care homes in England log 105,000 vacancies, as Anchor and umbrella groups voice concern over ‘no jabs no jobs’ policyOne of England’s largest social care providers has urged the government to change the vaccination deadline for all care-home workers, warning of a risk to levels of care as data confirmed that more than 50,000 staff could quit in the country from next week.The care provider Anchor, a not-for-profit chain of 114 services, said it was poised to lose about 120 staf
  
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• Father injected one- and two-year-old with heroin ‘to make them sleep’

  04-11-2021 13:04
  
  Child safeguarding review reveals ‘significant multi-agency involvement’ prior to incident in LancashireA father injected two of his children with heroin “to make them sleep”, a child safeguarding review has revealed.The sisters, aged one and two, were living in Lancashire with two older siblings aged nine and 16 and parents who had issues around mental ill health, substance misuse and domestic abuse. Continue reading...
  
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