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• Interfering do-gooders, social services and Interrail adventures | Letters

  30-08-2024 18:37
  Matt Atkinson on having to persuade his local authority to investigate a young traveller, and Joan Lewis on cross-Europe travelI am one of those interfering do-gooders who have referred instances of children travelling alone across Europe to social services. I’m surprised that they were so quick to investigate Kirstie Allsopp (Kirstie Allsopp reported to social services for allowing son, 15, to travel abroad, Report, 25 August), considering the difficulty I had persuading my local authorit
  
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• Alarm at failure to inspect 60% of England homecare providers in four years or longer

  30-08-2024 07:00
  
  Care leaders warn of serious safety risk as research reveals some providers have never been inspectedCare leaders have warned of a serious safety risk as research revealed 60% of homecare providers had not been inspected for at least four years, or ever.As the government prepares to receive a report on profound failings at its Care Quality Commission (CQC) that triggered the chief executive’s removal this summer and a public apology, the Homecare Association warned 37% of providers of domi
  
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