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• Child neglect is built into the care system | Letter

  05-01-2023 18:46 via theguardian.com
  After the child abuse scandals of 80s and 90s, many said they did not know what was being done to children, but nobody can make that claim today, says Carolyne WillowOur work with advocates who directly support children in care echoes Become’s research (England’s care crisis forces 1,200 children to move over Christmas, 2 January). Children are moved across the Christmas period, as they approach significant birthdays and during important school and college years. Just before Christma
  
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• Hospitals in England discharging patients into ‘care hotels’

  05-01-2023 14:15 via theguardian.com
  NHS trusts in south-west using hotels to free up beds to help them cope with winter crisisUK politics live – latest news updatesHospitals in several parts of England are discharging patients into “care hotels” in an effort to free up desperately needed beds to help them cope with the NHS winter crisis.NHS trusts providing acute care in Devon, Cornwall and Bristol and surrounding areas have begun moving patients who are medically fit to be discharged into hotels. Continue readin
  
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• Council providing three-minute care visits to vulnerable - ombudsman

  05-01-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Overworked staff allocated extremely short care calls by local authority struggling to meet users’ needsCare workers are taking as little as three minutes to help vulnerable people in their own homes, the social care ombudsman has found, after discovering a council was allocating extremely short visits to hundreds of people.Amid chronic staff shortages and rising unmet care needs nationwide, a homecare worker commissioned by Warrington metropolitan borough council sometimes stayed for just
  
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