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• Transparency data: Birthday Honours 2025: Ambulance Service list

  13-06-2025 23:30 via gov.uk
  
  Recipients of the King's Ambulance Service Medal 2025.
  
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• Republican in South Carolina arrested over distribution of child sexual abuse material

  13-06-2025 21:42
  
  RJ May, who used screen name ‘joebidennnn69’, charged with 10 counts and ordered to remain jailed until his trialA Republican member of South Carolina’s state house whom prosecutors say used the screen name “joebidennnn69” has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing sexual abuse material involving children.RJ May was arrested at his Lexington county home after a lengthy investigation and was ordered on Thursday by a federal judge to remain jailed un
  
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• Correspondence: Closed notice to improve: Lakes College West Cumbria

  13-06-2025 18:00 via gov.uk
  
  A financial health notice to improve issued to Lakes College West Cumbria.
  
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• Seven men who groomed vulnerable girls in Rochdale guilty of multiple sex offences

  13-06-2025 15:46
  Jury returned unanimous guilty verdicts for 50 offences committed by the men between 2001 and 2006Seven men who groomed two vulnerable teenage girls in Rochdale and treated them as “sex slaves” have been found guilty of multiple sex offences.A long-running trial in Manchester heard that the men subjected the girls to years of misery and expected them to have sex with them “whenever and wherever they wanted”. Continue reading...
  
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• Decision: Improvement notice issued to Bracknell Forest Council: June 2025

  13-06-2025 13:00 via gov.uk
  
  An improvement notice issued to Bracknell Forest Council to improve services for children and young people with SEND.
  
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• A day in the life of a specialist continuing healthcare social worker

  13-06-2025 09:47
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.
  by Lisa Norton
  I am an advanced practitioner specialising in continuing healthcare on behalf of a local authority.
  My role is to attend multidisciplinary meetings with a nurse assessor, next of kin, and a representative from the care home. The purpose of the meeting is to see if a person is eligible for continuing healthcare funding, provided by the local integrated care board.
  I am also ba
  
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• Sickle cell patients to get better treatment after £9 million boost

  13-06-2025 01:00 via gov.uk
  Patients living with rare blood disorders to benefit from increased access to treatment and availability of services, thanks to £9 million investment.
  
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• £4bn a year more available for adult social care by 2028-29 in spending review

  13-06-2025 00:25
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Chancellor Rachel Reeves has made over £4bn a year more available for councils to spend on adult social care in 2028-29 compared with this year in the government’s spending review, delivered yesterday.
  The funding has been made available by real-terms increases in funding for local authorities from 2026-29, along with a boost to the amount the NHS spends on adult social care thro
  
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