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• Child deaths by assault: will appalling brutality spur on reviews to fix a failing system?

  21-04-2022 21:46
  
  Public policy faces crucial challenge in wake of cases of torture, neglect and killings of defenceless children in BritainIt may seem as if the UK is undergoing a exceptional run of child deaths: in December the horrific cases of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, and Star Hobson came to light through the courts, followed by that of Kyrell Matthews in March, and now another appalling tragedy, five-year-old Logan Mwangi.Have child deaths by assault and neglect become more common? UK data suggests one child a
  
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• More than 50,000 older Australians died while waiting for approved home care since 2017, data shows

  21-04-2022 19:30
  
  While deaths not linked to delays, wait times for home care on the National Priority Scheme remain high, despite recent improvementsGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingMore than 50,000 older Australians have died while on the waiting list for home care in recent years, data which Labor says shows the system is still in crisis.The federal government last year announced a major package to alleviate the pressure on home care and cut the number of people who have been approved for a
  
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• Ljubica Erickson obituary

  21-04-2022 16:57
  
  In 1943, Branko Petrović, a teacher in Kikinda, Yugoslavia, was arrested for helping the wartime resistance movement, and was executed by the Nazis, leaving a nine-year-old daughter, Ljubica. He could never have foreseen the life that his daughter, later known as Ljubica Erickson, and who has died aged 88, would go on to have. Nonetheless his tender care, especially after her mother, Antonia Wolfe, abandoned them, had a lasting legacy. Her world outlook was informed by her father’s Ch
  
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• Women were less likely to return to work after a severe stroke

  21-04-2022 15:41
  A new study has found that after a severe stroke treated with mechanical clot removal, about one third of stroke survivors resumed work three months later. Women were about half as likely to return to work three months after a severe stroke compared to men. The likelihood of returning to work for both men and women after a severe stroke was higher if they were treated with combined mechanical clot removal and clot-busting stroke medications as compared to mechanical clot removal alone.
  
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• People with diabetes and cognitive decline may be at higher risk for heart disease

  21-04-2022 15:40
  People with type 2 diabetes who have cognitive impairment could be at greater risk for stroke, heart attack or death than other individuals with diabetes, according to a new study.
  
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• Nadhim Zahawi says parents should be trusted on whether to smack children

  21-04-2022 10:33
  
  Education secretary says his wife occasionally gives their child ‘a light smack’, after children’s tsar called for ban in EnglandThe education secretary has rejected calls for a ban on smacking children in England, as he argued that the state should not be “nannying” parents and revealed that his wife had occasionally given their child a “light smack on the arm”.Nadhim Zahawi said his “very strong view” was that parents should be trusted to d
  
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• England should follow Scotland and Wales and ban smacking, says children’s tsar

  21-04-2022 08:39
  
  Dame Rachel De Souza says children should be given same legal protection from assault as adultsEngland should consider following Scotland and Wales in banning the smacking of children, the children’s commissioner has said. Dame Rachel de Souza has signalled her support for changing the law to give children the same protection from assault as adults.She told Times Radio: “I absolutely abhor, and I’m against, violence of any kind against children. Because children are more vulner
  
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