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• Keir Starmer says he wants ‘serious and pragmatic’ relationship with China – as it happened

  18-11-2024 20:14
  
  Prime minister says he wants to ‘be clear about issues we do not agree on’ after meeting Chinese president Xi Jinping at G20Keir Starmer has held his bilateral with Xi Jinping in Rio at the G20, offering to meet his counterpart, the Chinese premier Li Qiang, in Beijing or London at the earliest opportunity.But the PM also raised human rights issues with Xi, including the sanctions on parliamentarians and the persecution of Hong Kong and British citizen Jimmy Lai.A strong UK China rel
  
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• The Guardian view on children’s homes: cap profits and don’t stop there | Editorial

  18-11-2024 20:05
  Private sector reform is overdue, but councils need funding if young people are to have the chances they deserveCurbs on profiteering in the children’s social care sector cannot come soon enough. It is getting on for three years since the Competition and Markets Authority found that children’s home owners in England, Scotland and Wales were making excessive profits while carrying too much debt – exposing children and councils to unacceptable risks. Of all the failed experiments
  
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• Keir Starmer says he wants ‘serious and pragmatic’ relationship with China – UK politics live

  18-11-2024 20:00
  
  Prime minister says he wants to ‘be clear about issues we do not agree on’ after meeting Chinese president Xi Jinping at G20Keir Starmer has held his bilateral with Xi Jinping in Rio at the G20, offering to meet his counterpart, the Chinese premier Li Qiang, in Beijing or London at the earliest opportunity.But the PM also raised human rights issues with Xi, including the sanctions on parliamentarians and the persecution of Hong Kong and British citizen Jimmy Lai.A strong UK China rel
  
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• Overhaul of children’s social care in England will crack down on firms’ profiteering

  18-11-2024 01:01
  
  Government says wide-ranging reforms will end ‘neglect’ in system that leaves young people behindLabour ready to show it is serious about changing children’s social careExcessive profiteering by unscrupulous private companies charging sky-high fees for substandard placements for vulnerable children will be clamped down on as part of a major overhaul of children’s social care in England.The government will on Monday outline a wide-ranging package of changes, which it promi
  
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• Labour ready to show it is serious about child social care reform

  18-11-2024 01:01
  Details are still lacking, but initial suggestion is that many of the MacAlister report’s findings will be enactedTwo years ago a government-commissioned report laid bare the crisis affecting children’s social care in England and called for an urgent multibillion-pound overhaul to reform a system that it said was spiralling out of control.The author of the report, Josh MacAlister, warned that a continued failure to tackle major problems in children’s services would lead to reco
  
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