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• Jean Bell obituary

  29-12-2021 20:32
  
  My friend Jean Bell, who has died aged 62, was an artist and craftswoman and a much-loved founding member of the L’Arche community in south London, where 100 people with and without learning disabilities share life together.Jean was born in Lambeth, south London, to Gladys (nee McLean), a housewife, and Harold Bell, a builder. Her parents had moved to Britain from Jamaica; she was their sixth child and the first to be born in the UK, although there were to be three more girls after her. Je
  
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• Tell us: how have you been affected by staff shortages in community care in England?

  29-12-2021 12:13
  
  We would like to hear from people struggling to access care services outside of hospital amid rising Omicron cases in EnglandCommunity care services have been hit by staff absences and increasing numbers of patients as Omicron cases have continued to rise in England.Community care, particularly nursing, could end up being rationed, the Royal College of Nursing has said. Continue reading...
  
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• Children’s social care system ‘unfit for purpose’ in England

  29-12-2021 07:00
  
  Former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield says it often puts vulnerable teenagers in greater dangerThe children’s social care system in England is unfit for purpose and often puts vulnerable teenagers in greater danger, according to the former children’s commissioner.Anne Longfield now runs the Commission on Young Lives, which warns in a report that the children’s social care system is “handing over” some vulnerable teenagers to criminals and abusers by mo
  
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