Two families were left reeling by the loss of their teenage children over the weekend in stabbing attacks as new figures showed a 93% increase in the number of young people targeted by knives.
Four in five employers in the social care sector admit that low pay is the biggest obstacle to filling the sector’s 110,000 vacancies, a survey has found, as ministers launch a national recruitment campaign for care workers.
Suicidal children as young as 12 are having to wait more than two weeks for beds in mental health units to start treatment, despite the risk to their lives, research reveals.