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• The Guardian view on Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: more lessons to learn | Editorial

  06-12-2021 20:12
  
  The promised review into the six-year-old’s death must not shy away fromconstraints linked to shrinking resources There is no easy way to make tragedies like the murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes less likely to happen. Child protection involves confronting experiences that many people can hardly bear to think about – witness the reactions to the horrifying evidence heard in the trial of the six-year-old’s killers, Thomas Hughes (his father) and Emma Tustin (his father’s par
  
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• Researchers identify sildenafil as candidate drug for Alzheimer’s disease

  06-12-2021 17:30
  A new study has identified sildenafil -- an FDA-approved therapy for erectile dysfunction (Viagra) and pulmonary hypertension (Ravatio) -- as a promising drug candidate to help prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease. Researchers determined that sildenafil is associated with 69% reduced incidence of Alzheimer's.
  
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• Lockdown is not the only reason Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was repeatedly failed | Gaby Hinsliff

  06-12-2021 17:17
  
  The pandemic has had a devastating effect on vulnerable children, but support services were overstretched long beforeOne by one, the brightly coloured helium balloons floated up into the wintry sky. They were released at the weekend outside the house in which six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was murdered, as a way of trying to show that he had been loved.Of all the harrowing details to emerge from the trial of his stepmother, Emma Tustin, and his natural father, Thomas Hughes, the one that man
  
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• After the murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, time to focus on children still at risk | Gaby Hinsliff

  06-12-2021 17:17
  
  There has been an outcry about schooling missed during the pandemic. We need a similar approach to keep the vulnerable safeOne by one, the brightly coloured helium balloons floated up into the wintry sky. They were released at the weekend outside the house in which six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was murdered, as a way of trying to show that he had been loved.Of all the harrowing details to emerge from the trial of his stepmother, Emma Tustin, and his natural father, Thomas Hughes, the one th
  
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• Coroners in England issue rare warnings over avoidable deaths in pandemic

  06-12-2021 13:00
  
  Exclusive: at least 16 notices issued to prevent future deaths after inquests highlight care failuresCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCoroners in England have said lessons must be learned from failings made by overstretched services that struggled to adapt during the Covid pandemic, as details of inquests into deaths only now emerge.At the height of the pandemic, everything from mental health and coastguard services to care homes had to quickly change how they op
  
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• Care home in Kent gives families 10 hours’ notice of closure

  06-12-2021 07:00
  
  Exclusive: collapse in standards at Berkeley House triggers shutdown so sudden one family called it ‘inhumane’Standards collapsed so quickly at a severely short-staffed care home that families were given just 10 hours’ notice of its final closure triggering a desperate scramble to find new homes for traumatised residents, the Guardian has learned.Berkeley House in Kent looked after adults with severe learning difficulties and autism but, five weeks ago, its operator suddenly de
  
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