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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…

NHS Whistleblower: ‘Patients are dying needlessly’

An NHS whistleblower has warned that the number of deaths and patients harmed by clinical negligence is ‘just the tip of the iceberg’, as he fears hundreds more cases are likely to come forward.   Michael Swinn, a Surrey-based consultant urological surgeon, blew the whistle on his own practice as a formal investigation into multiple…

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…