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• How child neglect is baked into the care system for teenagers | Letter

  09-11-2023 18:57
  
  A new class of accommodation for 16- and 17-year-olds is devoid of day-to-day care and consistent adult supervision, writes Carolyne WillowA judge is rightly astonished that a 16-year-old boy was sent to live in a series of unregulated placements across the country by his “corporate parent” (Coventry council used Airbnbs to house ‘vulnerable’ teenage boy accused of rape, 2 November). But this is the tip of the iceberg.After winning a tribunal appeal, my charity recen
  
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• ‘I need to make this love story’: documenting the radical dementia care of a pioneering reporter

  09-11-2023 17:00
  
  In a profoundly intimate film, director Maite Alberdi follows an influential Chilean journalist and his partner as they navigate life after an Alzheimer’s diagnosisAt the start of the Chilean documentary The Eternal Memory, a woman asks her husband, who has Alzheimer’s, if he likes his life. He beams back at her. “I love life.” The couple will be instantly recognisable to audiences in Chile. He is Augusto Góngora, a journalist who was part of an underground televis
  
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