Titan jails to have overcrowding built into design, admits ministry
The new generation of titan “superprisons” are being designed to be overcrowded from the start, the Justice Ministry admitted yesterday.
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Mother facing jail for abandoning toddler
A 22-year-old mother who left her two-year-old son alone in a flooded kitchen while she spent a weekend with her boyfriend was yesterday found guilty of child cruelty.
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Long-hours culture is returning, warns TUC
The harsh economic climate is forcing many more employees to work excessive hours, research for the Trades Union Congress revealed yesterday.
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Time taken to shut child abuse sites criticised
Child protection experts have called for greater efforts to patrol child abuse websites after a study revealed that it takes a month on average to take them down from the internet.
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Health and safety rules make children bland says head
Schools terrified of being sued are in danger of creating a generation of bland and anodyne children, an independent school head gave warning yesterday.
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Suicide websites and internet chatrooms could be closed down
Websites that encourage people to commit suicide could be shut down under changes to the law, it was disclosed today.
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Disabled man ‘murdered by carer for inheritance’
A disabled man was murdered in his bed by his former care worker so she could obtain a £60,000 inheritance, a court was told.
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Death by postcode: Baby killed after social workers lost touch with parents after they moved house
A baby girl on the ‘at risk’ register was shaken to death by her violent father after he evaded social services monitoring by moving two miles to a different local authority area.
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