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• The Guardian view on children’s social care: a heartbreaking market | Editorial

  23-05-2022 20:01
  
  The system is in crisis and profiteering providers are making it worse. The case for reform could hardly be clearerThere are 80,000 children in the care of local authorities in England. At the current rate of growth of 2% a year, the figure will be 100,000 in a decade. If removing more and more children from their families was producing good results in terms of preventing harm, and setting them up for life, that would be one thing. The truth is that while there are positive experiences of care,
  
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• The drug gabapentin may boost functional recovery after a stroke

  23-05-2022 15:34
  The drug gabapentin, currently prescribed to control seizures and reduce nerve pain, may enhance recovery of movement after a stroke by helping neurons on the undamaged side of the brain take up the signaling work of lost cells, new research in mice suggests.
  
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• Lifestyle changes, meds effective to prevent or delay Type 2 diabetes; no change in CVD

  23-05-2022 15:33
  New findings detail the 21-year follow-up of more than 3,200 adults with prediabetes who had participated in the original Diabetes Prevention Program trial. The DPPOS confirmed that treatment through lifestyle interventions or the medication metformin were effective long-term in preventing or delaying the development of Type 2 diabetes among adults with prediabetes compared to the participants who received standard care. However, the study participants' risk of having a heart attack, stroke or d
  
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• England’s care system is failing children. This new overhaul is based on a middle-class fantasy | Rebekah Pierre

  23-05-2022 14:00
  
  Passing the buck for care on to the ‘community’ won’t work for children living in unsafe housing or suffering abuseLike a protective sibling, I am the first to both criticise and defend the care system. It failed and saved me in equal measure. In adult life, I returned to it as a social worker. I know its flaws and its potential to change lives. The sector is stretched and underfunded. People working in the care system welcomed the promise of a review, but our hopes were short-
  
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• Overhaul of children’s social care in England urgent and unavoidable, review finds

  23-05-2022 07:00
  
  Root-and-branch review calls for five-year, £2.6bn programme to reform a system that is under ‘extreme stress’An urgent multibillion-pound overhaul of children’s social care in England is needed to transform the life chances of thousands of vulnerable young people and reform a system that is spiralling out of control, a government-commissioned review has concluded.The author of the report, Josh MacAlister, said failure to tackle major problems in children’s services
  
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• How a parents-first approach to child services in north-west England is getting results

  23-05-2022 07:00
  
  New Beginnings gives social workers the time to develop relationships with the families they helpAlmost a year ago, Clare Western wrote a letter to her two teenage children. She opened up about her regrets and how she should have listened when they urged her to leave an abusive ex-partner.It was a “monumental moment”, she said. “They both broke down and hugged me. Our relationships now have moved forward and evolved and got to the point where we can move on.” Continue rea
  
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