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• Wrexham nursing home owner tells Covid inquiry lack of testing terrified staff

  01-07-2025 18:08
  Helen Hough says her husband was traumatised by ‘horrific’ death of patient and later killed himselfA woman whose husband killed himself amid the pressure of running a care home during the pandemic has told the Covid inquiry that staff were “absolutely terrified” owing to the lack of testing in its early stages.Helen Louise Hough owned and managed a nursing home in Wrexham with her husband, Vernon, which housed up to 40 residents whom she described as like “their ex
  
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• Guidance: Find a learning aim and ILR sources of data

  01-07-2025 18:01 via gov.uk
  Information for software suppliers and FE providers that write their own software about learning aims and data sources for individualised learner records (ILR).
  
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• Almost 200 countries guarantee children’s rights. Why doesn’t the US?

  01-07-2025 12:00
  The US never signed on to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which experts say paves the way for cuts to federal funding for children’s health coverageEvery school year, midwife Lisa Isman meets dozens of eighth-graders for an annual tour of the clinic where she works. Students gather first in the office’s waiting room, where neon green couches, young adult romance novels and pamphlets on loneliness and sexual wellness greet them. On the tour of the Ungdomsmottagning &ndas
  
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