Data suggests that around 250,000 children currently living with domestic violence in England but they are not treated as victims. The NSPCC is calling for a change in the law to recognise the life long effects of experiencing DV in the household as a child. They commented that the current proposals “ignore the effect growing up …
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Jonathan Ashworth (Shadow health secretary) UK. The Guardian has reported that more than half of the local authorities in England have cut their budgets for alcohol and drug treatment, even though admissions to hospital for problems related to addiction are soaring, say MPs. Liam Byrne, the chair of the cross-party parliamentary group for …
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