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• The NHS has already buckled under Covid – I know from painful experience | Letters

  17-12-2021 19:05
  
  Madeleine Worrall on waiting for emergency surgery, and Helen Hills on the everyday anguish in care homesI don’t know why people are saying there is a risk that the NHS will buckle; it already has (Hospitals in England draw up plans for significant Covid staff absences, 17 December). This Christmas I hope some children get to enjoy the National Theatre’s Peter Pan, in which I played Wendy, online. I, however, having sustained a very nasty double break in my ankle, have just been told
  
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• ‘Scariest place I’ve worked’: social worker recalls stint in Bradford

  17-12-2021 16:17
  
  Frank Thomson (not his real name) worked as safeguarding locum in 2018 but left after feeling unsafeFrank Thomson* has been a social worker for more than a decade, but describes a short stint in Bradford council’s child safeguarding team as “without exaggerating, the scariest place I’ve ever worked in”.This week, the spotlight has turned to the troubled social work department after the murder of Star Hobson, a 16-month-old toddler, who was beaten to death by her mother&rs
  
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