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‘I felt totally abandoned’: the trauma of being uprooted and taken into care

01-04-2023 19:34

Jennifer Mohammadi and Kerrie Portman were both transplanted far from home by the care system … and still feel the consequences• Care homes crisis: children sent to live hundreds of miles away
The night Jennifer Mohammadi arrived in her new “home”, she begged and begged to leave.The teenager had been taken into care around a year earlier following a decline in her mother’s mental health. But this placement was different. It was in a new area filled with strangers an

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Care homes crisis: children sent to live hundreds of miles away

01-04-2023 19:33

Observer investigation uncovers the scale of the crisis in a system where the most vulnerable ‘will continue to be put at risk’• ‘I felt abandoned’: trauma of being uprooted and taken into careSome of Britain’s most vulnerable children are being moved to care homes more than 300 miles away from the neighbourhoods they grew up in, according to an Observer investigation revealing a “national scandal”.The shocking figures make clear for the first time

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Britain’s care homes crisis: children sent to live hundreds of miles away

01-04-2023 19:33

Observer investigation uncovers the scale of the crisis in a system where the most vulnerable ‘will continue to be put at risk’Some of Britain’s most vulnerable children are being moved to care homes more than 300 miles away from the neighbourhoods they grew up in, according to an Observer investigation revealing a “national scandal”.The shocking figures make clear for the first time the scale of the crisis that has long worried child welfare experts. They show doze

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Press release: New scheme for cheaper Hormone Replacement Therapy launches

01-04-2023 01:15 via gov.uk

From 1 April women in England will be able to access cheaper Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) to help with menopause symptoms

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