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• The promised community mental healthcare that never came | Letters

  18-11-2022 17:28
  Jim Cosgrove and Elizabeth Sarah describe how, in the 1980s under Thatcher’s government, residential mental health units were closed with the false assurance they would be replaced with care in the communityI applaud Jay Watts for illuminating the emotional, therapeutic and practical shortfalls in England’s mental healthcare delivery (England’s mental healthcare lacks money, yes – but it also lacks compassion, 10 November). Having worked as a therapist in a community ment
  
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• The British people ‘just got a lot poorer’, says IFS thinktank

  18-11-2022 12:14
  UK has scored ‘a series of economic own goals’, Institute for Fiscal Studies says after autumn statementAutumn statement: key points at a glanceAutumn statement 2022: all our coverageThe British people “just got a lot poorer” after a series of “economic own goals” that have made a recovery much harder than it might have been, a leading thinktank has said.In his verdict on the chancellor’s autumn statement, Paul Johnson, the director of the Institute for
  
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• Bigger council tax rises will not prevent more cuts to services, councils say

  18-11-2022 07:00
  Chancellor relaxes cap on raising rates to part-finance planned cash injection for adult social care Increasing council tax bills next April will hit struggling residents, fail to lift the pressure on cash-strapped local authorities and will not prevent more cuts to key services, from social care to waste collection and libraries, local government leaders have said.Average council tax bills could rise by as much as £100, to more than £2,000 for households in band D, from April, after
  
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