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• Letters: Peter Westland obituary

  27-07-2023 20:27
  
  After Peter Westland became the first director of social services for the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in 1971, he not only mentored many of us social workers, but we became his friends. He was available to everyone on the staff in the canteen at Fulham town hall at lunchtime, dispensing wit, encouragement and acute perceptions about social care.Jeremy AmbacheFor four decades, Peter Westland was entertaining about his support for Queens Park Rangers football club in his exchanges wit
  
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• ‘Routine’ use of hotels for lone child asylum seekers is unlawful, UK court rules

  27-07-2023 13:08
  
  Judge says Home Office may only use housing arrangement for ‘very short periods in true emergency situations’UK politics live – latest updatesThe Home Office’s “routine” housing of unaccompanied child asylum seekers in hotels is unlawful, the high court has ruled.The charity Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT) brought legal action against the government department over the practice of housing unaccompanied youngsters in hotels, claiming the arran
  
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