All news on the topic: Social workers

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Inside Love Island's Sanam's home amid coupling up with Kai
Sanam Harrinanan made it from Casa Amor to the main Love Island villa, and fans are keen to see what her home looks like back in the UK
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Young black boys almost three times more likely to enter youth justice system
Children from ethnic minority backgrounds make up more than half all children in custody. The proportion has increased from 32% in 2010 to 53% in 2020
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Lower-paid workers more likely to have quit job for health reasons, report finds
A study by the Learning and Work Institute sheds light on which employees left their roles during the Covid-19 pandemic - and the reasons behind them quitting
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Maya Jama teases Love Island's Casa Amor recoupling date as she jets to villa
Love Island host Maya Jama posted a short video from her seat on the airplane, as she was seen jetting back to South Africa
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Mum whose best friend was killed by evil ex runs marathons to keep others safe
Julia McKee, from Iver Heath, Bucks, is determined to combat domestic abuse after her best friend Sarah Henshaw was attacked with a claw hammer and strangled as she slept
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Lockdown demise of Kaylea Titford which saw her balloon to 23st before she died
Kaylea Titford, 16, was "trapped" inside her bedroom with no access to the toilet as her father Alun Titford was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence
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Inside home of teen found dead in squalor 'as parents let her weight hit 23st'
Alun Titford is accused of the manslaughter of his disabled 16-year-old daughter Kaylea, who weighed 22 stone and 13 lbs, with a body mass index of 70, when she was found dead at home in in Newtown, Wales
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Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson killings spark grandparents care help plan
In the wake of the shocking deaths of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson, the government today unveils a £200million plan to fix children’s social care
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Man who kept six kids hidden in cellars is grandson of hanged Nazi war criminal
Tom Landon has previously condemned his grandfather Ernst Kaltenbrunner's actions - who was found guilty during the Nuremberg trials and executed in October 1946
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Conspiracy theorist who kept 6 children in cellars insists 'I'm no Josef Fritzl'
Tom Landon, 54, spent 24 hours in police custody after officials found three boys and three girls aged between seven months and seven years in a cellar near the Czech border in Austria
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'My amazing three-year-old has beaten cancer, a transplant and liver disease'
Billy Twitchen has survived life-threatening liver disease, an organ transplant and cancer caused by his medication. His amazing recovery has left his doctors surprised
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Convicted paedophile given custody of girl he got pregnant after years of abuse
Social workers 'overlooked' the man's criminal convictions for child sex offences after he was previously classed 'low risk', and went on to abuse the girl for a number of years
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Woman lay dead for 4 years before mummified corpse found with 'I need help' note
Laura Winham's sister said the 38-year-old had been 'badly let down' by social services after her body was found almost four years after she died in her social housing flat in Woking
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Inside hoarder's home piled so high with tat he couldn't use heating or bathroom
East Devon District Council stepped in to totally transform the home after the resident was hospitalised and couldn't be discharged until the property was clear and safe
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'Teen' in Brit school unmasked as convicted killer who murdered two with AK-47
Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai gunned down two fellow Afghans with an AK-47 in a row about trafficking when he was in Serbia, around a year before he entered the UK as a 14-year-old schoolboy despite being 18 at the time
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Shortage of health visitors means kids are missing out on vital wellbeing checks
Research shows one in 10 health visitors are juggling caseloads of more than 1,000 kids – four times the recommended ratio – and nearly a third have more than 750 children on their books
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Man whose public sex video went viral was identified by his own girlfriend
Joe Firby, 23, was caught on camera performing sex acts with a woman in Concert Square, Liverpool. He was identified in the footage by his girlfriend at the time
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'Dear the Royal Family: you need to talk about Prince Harry'
The Royals will have to talk about Prince Harry's claims of violence and jealousy, says Fleet Street Fox. The alternative is to go down in history for looking as guilty as hell