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• Unpaid UK carers 4.5% worse off as cost of living erodes benefits value

  24-04-2022 11:00
  
  Warnings of cost-of-caring crisis as state allowance is cut by £170 a year in real termsUnpaid carers face a real-terms cut of 4.5% in their weekly allowance, amid continued warnings about a major erosion in the value of state benefits.The decision not to make an emergency increase in benefits in response to ballooning inflation has this month seen some benefits fall by the largest amount in 50 years. It comes after chancellor Rishi Sunak resisted calls to increase welfare payments in his
  
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• The Observer view on failures of the child protection system

  24-04-2022 07:00
  
  Two decades after the Victoria Climbié case led to an inquiry, recent deaths show we have learned little from such tragediesTwenty years ago, Britain was confronted with the horror of what can happen when the child protection system fails. Victoria Climbié, a “happy, smiling, enthusiastic little girl”, was tortured to death over a period of months by her relatives, in the worst-ever case of child abuse the professionals who investigated her death had seen. The governmen
  
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