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Professional Care Workers Month 2024 – What are my rights?

This month marks Professional Care Workers’ Week, aimed at recognising the contribution care workers make to society.   Care Workers are often subjected to zero-hour contracts, unsociable hours, and low pay but continue to dedicate their lives to supporting others – including elderly and vulnerable people.     This month, is designed to highlight the…

Whitefield School: Staff members filmed ‘abusing’ children at special school

Staff members at a special school in London were filmed abusing children in so-called ‘calming rooms’,  but have still not been barred from working with children, a BBC investigation has found.   The abhorrent abuse was discovered when 44 memory sticks containing CCTV footage of classrooms were found in a sealed box, when new leadership…