The Guardian

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Institute for Government says ‘crumbling’ services are far worse than when Tories took power in 2010 Britain’s public services are stuck in a “doom loop” of recurring crises as a result of ministers’ short-term policymaking, a thinktank has warned. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 2, 2023

The last thing Rianna Cleary remembers before she passed out in the early hours of 27 September 2019, alone and in the throes of labour pain, was a scene involving a chicken leg in the film Killer Joe, which was showing on the TV screen in her prison cell. She was covered in blood – and her daughter was dead.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Money could be spent on cutting youth reoffending and improving custody conditions, party says About £111m of taxpayers’ money has been wasted by the government over a decade on empty secure children’s home beds across England and Wales, Labour has said after an analysis of official statistics.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Amanda Spielman warns ‘there is a minority of children who sadly are safer in school than out of it’ The head of the Ofsted schools inspectorate has said England risks a repeat of cases such as Arthur Labinjo-Hughes , the six-year-old abused and murdered in his own home last year, if schools and social services are disrupted by future lockdowns.

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