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• Damage to inner ear system predicts fall risk among people with Alzheimer's disease

  10-03-2022 20:37
  A study of about 50 people with Alzheimer's disease has added to evidence that damage to the inner ear system that controls balance is a major factor in patients' well-documented higher risk of falling.
  
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• Vulnerable children are falling off school rolls | Letter

  10-03-2022 19:39
  
  The very children who have been recognised by social services and schools as being most in need of help are the most likely to miss out on education, say Matthew A Jay and Louise Mc Grath-LoneThe recent report by the children’s commissioner found that there is little knowledge about children who are not enrolled in state schools, including how many are missing out on their entitlement to formal, full-time education (No one knows how many children in England, says children’s commissio
  
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• UK has ‘sleepwalked’ into dysfunctional children’s social care market, says regulator

  10-03-2022 14:03
  
  CMA finds local authorities are being forced to pay excessive fees for substandard privately run servicesThe UK has “sleepwalked” into a dysfunctional market for children’s social care with local authorities forced to pay excessive fees for privately run services that often fail to meet the needs of vulnerable children, an official report has concluded.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) called for an overhaul of the £6.5bn UK market for children’s residenti
  
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• The Key Workers Cycle review – a tender collaboration to keep the darkness at bay

  10-03-2022 12:29
  
  Almeida theatre, London
  A cycle of nine community pieces that use black comedy and cautionary tales to celebrate the people who keep things goingFor its latest show, the Almeida theatre in Islington, London, has looked back to its amateur origins for a template – the pageants by trade guilds that grew into the medieval mystery plays. Out of it has come a cycle of nine community pieces that will sing the song of key workers in trios over three nights, with the whole lot repeated on Saturday
  
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