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• Britain’s care system promotes modern slavery. A genuinely humane government would reform it | Andrea Egan

  12-02-2026 15:10
  New proposals that would force poorly paid migrant workers to wait longer for earned settlement are nothing more than an assault on working-class peopleAndrea Egan is the general secretary of UnisonBillionaires and politicians fan the flames of hate, but without migrant workers, Britain would grind to a halt. That’s especially true when it comes to health and social care: more than a fifth of the NHS workforce in England is made up of migrant staff. The same proportion of care workers nati
  
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• Parents of children taken in to care should get more help, say experts after Victoria Marten death

  12-02-2026 01:01
  Review says trauma-informed support could help interrupt ‘destructive cycles’ and reduce risk of harm to future babiesParents whose children are taken into care should receive trauma-informed support to reduce the risk of harm to any further babies they have, according to child protection experts.A national child safeguarding review, launched after the death of baby Victoria Marten, said that if “destructive cycles of harm are to be interrupted” there needed to be more fo
  
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