Tag: Channel 4 News
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Children with eating disorders not given timely access to care | 5 News
► Have you subscribed to 5 News?: ► Children with ”potentially life threatening” eating disorders are not being given proper access to care. It’s a problem that’s growing as demand for services increases. In the year from 2016 to 2017 more than 5 thousand children and young people began treatment for eating disorders. Last year,…
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The volunteers who are working to ensure children don't go hungry during the holidays | 5 News
► Have you subscribed to 5 News?: ►Today we’re with the volunteers who have been working tirelessly to ensure that children don’t go hungry during the holidays. More than half of parents in the UK who have a child on free school meals say they’re worried about how they will pay for lunches this summer.…
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‘Care system in crisis’ – Children living hundreds of miles from community
Children placed in care are too often being sent miles away from their local communities, according to a leading charity. (Subscribe: It has found that in England, such cases are increasing because there’s not enough suitable accommodation closer to home. One woman who grew up in care told this programme that she ended up hundreds…
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Queen Elizabeth II dies aged 96
Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, has died, Buckingham Palace has announced. She became Queen in 1952 at the age of 25 and spent 70 years on the throne. She had pledged to serve her people, which she fulfilled through a combination of skill and a sense of duty. It was during…