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• Leicester woman given life term for 2012 murder of one-year-old baby

  10-11-2023 16:46
  
  Katie Tidmarsh found guilty of killing ‘defenceless young child’ she had been in the process of adoptingA woman has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 17 years for murdering the one-year-old baby she was in the process of adopting, after failing to disclose mental health problems to the adoption panel.Katie Tidmarsh, 39, was convicted of murdering Ruby Thompson, who sustained catastrophic brain damage and died in hospital in August 2012. Continue reading...
  
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• Tory turmoil hits efforts to fix staffing crisis in adult social care

  10-11-2023 07:00
  
  National Audit Office says political chaos has delayed proposed measures to improve recruitment in EnglandThe government has delayed several key reforms to social care staffing in England due to political chaos caused by the collapse of the Boris Johnson and Liz Truss governments and a Whitehall recruitment freeze, it has emerged.Work to create new training places and develop the low-paid care workforce was supposed to start in September but has been delayed by at least six months. Continue read
  
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