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Department for Education tells court nothing can be done where lack of secure placement for vulnerable and damaged 13 year old
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Department for Education to ban placing of vulnerable under 16s in unregulated accommodation from September 2021
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Department for Education to consult on revising National Standards for Provision of Children’s Advocacy Services
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Department for Education warned after gambling companies benefit from learning records database
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Department for Education’s Coronavirus Regulations did damage children’s safeguards but were not unlawful due to pandemic, High Court says
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Department for Health and Social Care sets out position on ordinary residence determinations pending legal challenge
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Department for Health and Social Care will continue stay on ordinary residence disputes pending final decision from Supreme Court
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Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities acknowledges progress at combined authority by issuing revised best value notice
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Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities becomes Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government again
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Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities issues North East council with revised best value notice
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Department for Transport consults on longer roadworks guarantee for utility companies
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Department for Transport knew in advance of signing freight contracts that procurement challenge was likely to succeed
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Department for Transport orders DVLA to stop sharing vehicle keeper information with London borough running speed enforcement trial in unlawful way
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Department for Transport rules out appeal over Stonehenge Tunnel judgment
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Department of Health and Social Care issues ‘roadmap regulations’
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Department of Health and Social Care issues code of practice on standards of training on learning disability and autism
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Department of Health and Social Care to procure latest £772m framework for NHS Resolution
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Department withdraws ‘myth-busting’ guide to council duties to vulnerable children
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Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards applications up by 11% since last year
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Depriving children of liberty should be “genuine measure of last resort” used only in secure childcare establishments, report warns
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