NHS trust staff abused adults with learning disabilities

NHS trust staff abused adults with learning disabilities
NHS staff persistently abused a blind and deaf man with a low IQ by tying him up for 16 hours a day, government inspectors revealed today in a damning report on services for people with learning disabilities in Cornwall.
Source:- The Guardian, Wednesday 5 July 2006, page 4
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Private groups get big slice of welfare reform contracts
Private and voluntary sector providers are to be given contracts for 60 per cent of a flagship welfare-to-work programme designed to get 1 million people off incapacity benefit, the government said yesterday.
Source:- Financial Times, Wednesday 5 July 2006, page 2
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Welfare bill plans to take 1 million off incapacity benefit
Radical changes in the social security system aimed at saving billions of pounds in incapacity and housing benefit payments were announced yesterday by John Hutton, the work and pensions secretary.
Source:- The Guardian, Wednesday 5 July 2006, page 11
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Child protection police expert cleared
John Fox, a former national police expert on child protection was cleared of assaulting two teenage girls.
Source:- The Times, Wednesday 5 July 2006, page 5
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Ex-council chief denies abusing boy
Former Hull Council leader Colin Inglis is accused of sexually abusing a boy more than 20 years ago. Inglis is said to have subjected the 13-year-old boy to a series of sexual assaults when he was a social worker at a children’s home in Hull.
Source:- The Times, Wednesday 5 July 2006, page 9
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Syphilis cases soar 10 years after doctors thought it had been beaten
Sexual health experts are seeing a dramatic increase in the numbers of cases of syphilis – fuelled by unprotected gay sex and an outbreak among mature women who are suspected of “swinging”, official figures released yesterday show.
Source:- The Guardian, Wednesday 5 July 2006, page 8
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Court trampled over rights of victim
Two senior judges strongly condemned a lower court yesterday for pressuring a vulnerable girl to allow her medical records to be disclosed to a man accused of sexually abusing her.
Source:- The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday 5 July 2006, page 9
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Respite service for people with severe mental health problems
The Staying Out respite project in the Yorkshire Dales enables people with severe mental health problems to support each other in times of crisis.
Source:- Guardian Society, Wednesday 5 July 2006, page 7
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Rewarding advice
A new £50 million Big Lottery Fund programme will focus on reaching people who need advice across England.
Source:- Guardian Society, Wednesday 5 July 2006, page 10

Child porn battle
People who look at child porn on the internet could have their credit cards confiscated in a change in data protection laws.
Source:- The Times, Wednesday 5 July 2006, page 5
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Every lock at Feltham changed after TV gaffe
The Prison Service has been forced to spend £250,000 on changing every lock and key in Feltham young offenders’ institution after a TV news crew filmed a prison key during a media visit last week.
Source:- The Guardian, Wednesday 5 July 2006, page 5
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Early terminations push abortion rate to record level
Abortions have reached record levels and nearly a third of women who have an abortion have had one or more before, according to Department of Health statistics.
Source:- The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday 5 July 2006, page 8
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 Addiction danger for child drinkers
Children who start drinking before 14 are more likely to become dependent on alcohol in later life, doctors warned yesterday.
Source:- Daily Mail, Wednesday 5 July 2006, page 8
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Mum gave baby tea, inquest is told
A teenage mother gave her new born baby tea when she ran out of milk, an inquest heard yesterday.
Health workers told Cardiff coroner’s court how they were alarmed when Sarah Scott, who was only 15 when she became pregnant, revealed the she had given baby Chloe tea and told her never to do it again.
Chloe died aged 16 weeks after she stopped breathing at the family home. She had 40 broken bones at the time of her death caused by her parents trying to teach her to walk.
Source:- Western Mail, Wednesday 5 July 2006
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