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• The Guardian view on sick pay: a system unfit for purpose | Editorial

  06-02-2022 19:25
  
  Fixing the UK’s broken sick pay regime would reduce the spread of infectious diseases – and be a small step towards a fairer countrySajid Javid has begun a rather dramatic U-turn. Until recently, the health secretary insisted that care workers and frontline NHS staff had to get vaccinated against Covid or find another post, but the policy has now been dropped. Compulsory vaccination is still good health policy, he told fellow MPs, but ministers worry about a plunge in staff numbers.
  
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• Behind Closed Doors: Why We Break Up Families and How to Mend Them by Polly Curtis – review

  06-02-2022 16:00
  
  This investigation of the UK’s dysfunctional care system exposes many painful truths about the treatment of vulnerable childrenThe key question comes towards the end of this fine investigation into why we are taking more children into care than since records began in the 1990s, exercising draconian powers, including forced adoption, to break up more families than any other western country. “Is the system so corrupted by 30 years of distrust that it is beyond repair?” asks journ
  
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