28 h. ago DWP to reassess hundreds of thousands of cases in carer’s allowance scandal

Damning official review finds many unpaid carers left with huge debt because of government failure‘It’s like the Post Office scandal’: victims of carer’s allowance crisis speak outThe carer’s allowance scandal – a timelineHundreds of thousands of vulnerable unpaid carers will have their cases reassessed after a damning official review concluded they had been left with huge debts because of government failure and maladministration.The review, due to be published on Tuesday, was triggered after a year-long Guardian investigation revealed how carers had been hit with draconian penalties of as much as £20,000 relating to carer’s allowance. Some were plunged into hardship, others were jailed. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago 'Smirking pimp' ringleader of Romanian grooming gang was allowed to apply for £1500 Home Office deportation scheme while in prison awaiting trial for 10 rapes

Marian Cumpanasoiu, 38, led a group that groomed, drugged and raped vulnerable women in Dundee.

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5 d. ago 'Smirking pimp' ringleader of Romanian grooming gang 'was offered £1500 by the Home Office to be deported while in prison awaiting trial for 10 rapes'

Marian Cumpanasoiu, 38, led a group that groomed, drugged and raped vulnerable women in Dundee.

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3 w. ago 'Human errors' led to grooming gang cases being dropped, review finds amid huge NCA investigation

Thousands of cases of rape and sexual assault are being reviewed as part of the National Crime Agency’s Operation Beaconport

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3 w. ago Grooming gang investigations dropped by police because of ‘potentially human error’

Thousands of investigations that ended without a conviction will be reviewed as part of Operation Beaconport

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3 w. ago Grooming gang investigations dropped due to ‘human error’, early review suggests

Initial inquiries by a national taskforce suggest available lines of inquiry were not pursued in some sex abuse gang cases.

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4 w. ago 'Calamity Lammy' comes under fire in the Commons: Deputy PM scrambles to set up independent probe into mistaken release of Epping sex offender as he faces pressure from MPs over Hadush Kebatu case

David Lammy, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, came under fire from MPs after he revealed that 'human error' appeared to be to blame for the blunder.

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4 w. ago Prison staff complain they are being 'scapegoated' after accidentally freeing Epping sex attack migrant as Lammy blames 'human error'

Mark Fairhurst, the national chair of the UK Prison Officers' Association (POA), said at least two more senior figures were also involved in the release of Hadush Kebatu.

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4 w. ago 'Human error' by a prison officer led to Epping sex offender Hadush Kebatu being wrongly freed, says Lammy

The Ethiopian asylum seeker was recaptured on Sunday after being mistakenly released from HMP Chelmsford on Friday

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4 w. ago Romanian grooming gang led by 'smirking pimp' are jailed for grooming vulnerable women and forcing them to take part in 'sex games'

Ringleader Marian Cumpanasoiu, 38, and four associates drugged their victims - aged between 16 and 30 - at flats across Dundee between 2021 and 2022.

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4 w. ago Romanian grooming gang led by 'smirking pimp' are jailed for grooming vulnerable Scottish women and forcing them to take part in 'sex games'

Ringleader Marian Cumpanasoiu, 38, and four associates drugged their victims - aged between 16 and 30 - at flats across Dundee between 2021 and 2022.

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