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Home Office faces legal action over children missing from UK asylum hotels

11-06-2023 10:00

Charity alleges placing unaccompanied children in hotels is ‘unlawful’ and a national scandalPlacing unaccompanied children in hotels run by the Home Office is “unlawful”, according to a legal action launched after hundreds of youngsters living in them have gone missing.Launched on Monday by the charity ECPAT UK, the legal action argues that the Home Office has “no authority” to place unaccompanied children in asylum hotels, from where scores have been kidnapp

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How did NHS body get the law so badly wrong over its rules on same-sex care? | Sonia Sodha

11-06-2023 08:01

New healthcare guidance could deny female patients their legitimate rights. It should be withdrawnPatients are supposed to be at the heart of everything the NHS does. This is considered such an important principle that, a decade ago, the fledgling NHS constitution was rewritten after the mid-Staffs scandal, in which so many patients died, to make clear it should frame every aspect of NHS work.Yet, last week, the NHS Confederation, the membership body for NHS providers, published guidance that ap

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Thousands of Afghan refugees in UK set to be made homeless

11-06-2023 01:01

Downing Street crisis meeting hears that about 8,000 who arrived under Operation Warm Welcome will be evicted this summer with nowhere to goThousands of Afghan refugees in the UK face homelessness this summer, the government was warned last week at a secret crisis meeting in Downing Street.Council officials told No 10 and Home Office civil servants that about 8,000 Afghan refugees, allowed into the country in 2021 under the slogan Operation Warm Welcome, are due to be evicted from hotels as earl

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Kathleen Folbigg’s ‘fierce women’ on the need to challenge misogyny in criminal cases

11-06-2023 00:34

Folbigg’s friend Tracy Chapman says her prison ordeal ‘can’t be for nothing’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIn the week since Kathleen Folbigg was pardoned and released from prison, she has been unravelling the learned behaviours from 20 years spent in prison: no longer eating dinner at 3.30pm, or having to wait for a guard before opening a door. Realising she has free choice.But Tracy Chapman, Folbigg’s longtime friend and a

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