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The importance of a place called home: connection, loss, and hope.

Learning Social Worker

In my patch of the world it’s a beautiful spring day. A few days later the Russians invaded Ukraine and the news has been heart-breaking since. The reality is that refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, African countries, and around the world are people like us too. But for the people of Ukraine things are bleak.

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13 Pro Athletes With Problem Gambling Addictions

Gateway Foundation

Learn more about gambling problems in the professional sports world and how treatment can help you regain control over your life. A particularly distressful event occurred after winning $750,000 at the World Golf Championship. Fortunately, many found recovery, which requires determination and a lifelong commitment to change.

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Modern slavery ‘a feature’ of care sector in England since Brexit

The Guardian

End of free movement of workers from EU has significantly increased possibilities of exploitation, care watchdog tells MPs Post-Brexit restrictions on the free movement of workers from the EU have contributed to modern slavery becoming “a feature” of the care sector in England the Care Quality Commission has told MPs.

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Spiralling inflation, crops left in the field and travel chaos: 10 reasons Brexit has been disastrous for Britain

The Guardian

No matter that leaving the EU has tangled up businesses in form-filling, fees and a new world of unbelievable complexity: Rishi Sunak says he wants to “go further and faster in using the freedoms Brexit has given us to cut the mass of EU regulations and bureaucracy holding back our growth”.

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Ukraine refugees in UK face waits of up to two years for war trauma therapy

The Guardian

Services across country are patchy with some areas ‘treatment deserts’ when it comes to trauma, say experts Russia-Ukraine war – latest updates Traumatised Ukrainian refugees who have sought sanctuary in the UK may have to wait two years before they can get specialised therapy to help them heal from the horrors of war, according to experts.

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Spanish police investigating alleged carer scam arrest two women

The Guardian

Care company is suspected of cheating 90-year-old British woman out of her savings Spanish police investigating a care company that allegedly cheated at least one elderly and vulnerable British customer out of her savings and property have arrested two women and seized €45,000 (£38,000) in cash.

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Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway review – Rani Mukerji goes dowdy in mama-drama ordeal

The Guardian

Adaptation of a nightmare true story about a woman whose children were removed by the Norwegian state gets passionate too late This epic Hindi-language testament to tenacious maternal love has been neatly timed for release over the UK Mother’s Day weekend, although it’s based on a true story which began over a decade earlier.

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