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Home Office accused of ‘dereliction of duty’ over missing child asylum seekers

24-01-2023 20:05

Unclear who has legal responsibility for children placed in hotels, after dozens abducted from street in BrightonMinisters have been accused of a “dereliction of duty” over their failure to find 76 child asylum seekers who have gone missing from a Brighton hotel managed by the Home Office.The accusation came during a parliamentary debate on Tuesday after an Observer investigation that cited child protection sources and a whistleblower working for a Home Office contractor, who describ

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Archbishops call for checks to prevent social care profiteering

24-01-2023 17:40

Stephen Cottrell and Justin Welby launch sweeping plan to reform how vulnerable people are looked afterUK politics live – latest news updatesThe archbishop of York has called for checks on “unscrupulous people making profit inappropriately” from social care as the Church of England launched a sweeping plan to reform how vulnerable people are looked after.Stephen Cottrell told the Guardian he was “really concerned” about care company owners taking multimillion pound

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Tuesday briefing: The shocking kidnapping of unaccompanied children

24-01-2023 07:57

In today’s newsletter: Dozens of children who arrived on small boats have been abducted outside Home Office-run hotels. How did this happen – and is anyone actually looking for them?Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. Two days ago, the Observer reported a story that seemed to set a new low for the authorities’ handling of asylum seekers who come to the UK by small boats: dozens of vulnerable children, with no parent in the country, being abducted f

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C of E leaders call for tax rises to fund NHS-style social care system

24-01-2023 01:01

Archbishops of Canterbury and York say ‘national care covenant’ needed with stronger role for stateEngland’s most senior church leaders want tax rises to fund a new NHS-style universal social care system that could cost an extra £15bn a year.In a challenge to the government to overhaul support for 1 million elderly and disabled people, the archbishops of Canterbury and York have called for a “national care covenant” with a stronger role for the state and citiz

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