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‘There was a chance to stop him’: Parents react with fury to paedophile nursery worker revelations

More than 50 families call for investigation into how Vincent Chan was allowed to return to job after inquiry by nursery The parents of the victims of paedophile nursery worker Vincent Chan have reacted with fury to the news that he was cleared to return to work after “significant concerns” were raised by the parent of a young girl. As first revealed in the Guardian , Chan was reported to his employer, the nursery chain Bright Horizons, by a concerned parent in 2021. After being investigated by Bright Horizons, with the knowledge of Camden council, Chan was cleared to return to work at the nursery on the Finchley Road in north-west London. A year later, in 2022, Chan filmed himself abusing three-year-old girls in his care. Continue reading...

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Yes, obesity is a problem – but a greater one is the food industry and its greed | Letters

Ultra-processed foods are displacing traditional diets, warns Prof Kent Buse . Plus letters from Hugo Harper , Dr Pawan Randev and Patricia Hampton Your editorial on cancers in under-50s ( 8 October ) rightly names food among the culprits. But the confrontation it calls for should be aimed less at obesity than at what produces it. Obesity is the intermediary; the exposure is a food system engineered for profit. The Lancet’s series on ultra-processed foods showed these products displacing traditional diets worldwide and driving chronic disease, and documented more than 200 interconnected lobby groups through which the industry organises its influence to block regulation. Continue reading...

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Hundreds of early-release prisoners in England and Wales not being tagged, say MPs

Clive Efford says Serco has failed to source enough tags, as police and probation struggle with influx of newly released offenders UK politics live – latest updates Hundreds of prisoners released early across England and Wales, including stalkers and violent offenders, are not being tagged by Serco, MPs have said, despite pledges for the “toughest supervision in British history”. As the government begins to discharge a second tranche of 650 offenders to relieve the prison overcrowding crisis, police and probation officers have said that they are struggling to cope with a new influx of offenders who are supposed to be monitored in the community. Continue reading...

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