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• The Guardian view on hospices: these special places can’t afford to be hidden | Editorial

  17-07-2024 19:52
  Palliative care charities are facing a funding crisis – they should be included in Lord Darzi’s review of the NHSClose to 600,000 people die in the UK annually – a figure that was higher during the pandemic, but has since fallen back. More than half are at home or in a care home; most of the rest are in hospital. But for about 28,000 people who need specialist end-of-life care (nearly 5% of all deaths), a hospice is where they receive it. A much larger number receive palliative
  
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• When social housing policy leaves children bereaved and homeless | Letters

  17-07-2024 18:56
  Readers respond to an article that lays bare how relatives can find themselves evicted after a death in the familyKwajo Tweneboa’s piece about how bereaved relatives are immediately evicted from social housing struck home (The secret social housing scandal: when your parent dies – and you are evicted in days, 16 July). When my mother died in 2000, we had a week to clear the flat on the estate she lived on with us for 40 years. Just about time to clear the kitchen and bathroom, and di
  
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• ‘Why parents in the child protection system need advocacy’

  17-07-2024 18:27
  
  By Fiona Long, Cardiff University
  Legislation, guidance, and policy require that the wishes and feelings of parents are taken into account during key child protection processes such as conferences. However, research has found that this does not routinely happen in practice (Diaz, 2020), with many parents reporting feeling marginalised and disempowered by social workers.
  The Department for Education (2023) has recognised the potential benefits of parental advocacy as a form of parental representa
  
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• Independent report: Flu vaccines 2025 to 2026: JCVI advice

  17-07-2024 17:30 via gov.uk
  
  Statement from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) about vaccines for the 2025 to 2026 flu season.
  
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• What was missing from the king’s speech? From votes for 16-year-olds to leasehold reform

  17-07-2024 15:54
  A crackdown on the use of overseas workers and an AI bill were also missing from the speechKing’s speech – live updatesThe king’s speech may have contained 40 proposed bills, but some previously mooted ideas were missing. Here are the proposals it could have contained but did not. Continue reading...
  
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• Law to bolster child protection announced in Labour’s first King’s Speech

  17-07-2024 14:15
  
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  The new Labour government has pledged to legislate to strengthen the child protection in its first King’s Speech, unveiled today.
  The long-awaited reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 and action to deliver “fair pay” for staff in adult social care are also included in its first legislative programme since taking office this month.
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• Social Work England issues guidance on new AMHP training standards

  17-07-2024 10:40
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social Work England has issued guidance for higher education institutions (HEIs) on implementing new standards for approved mental health professional (AMHP) qualifying courses.
  The standards will replace the current regime, which Social Work England inherited from the Health and Care Professions Council, in summer 2025, from when the regulator will use them to approve new courses and reappr
  
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• Press release: National RSV vaccination programme announced

  17-07-2024 01:15 via gov.uk
  
  A national RSV vaccine programme protecting infants and elderly will save lives in the UK
  
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