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Wales Ignores Test To Detect Deafness In Babies
Welsh deaf children will be denied the best start in life unless a screen to detect deafness in new born babies - being introduced in England from next year - is implemented in Wales. The screen, which costs as little as £13 per head, will soon be available in 20 English hospitals, but there are no plans to do the same in Wales.
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Petrol Crisis Poll
QV1 How would you vote if there were a General Election tomorrow?
[If undecided or refused at Q1]
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Motivating Adult Learners
The Basic Skills Agency today launches new research into what motivates adults with poor basic skills to improve them. The survey, commissioned by the Adult Basic Skills Promotion Task Force (set up following the publication of the Moser Report, A Fresh Start), is called Getting Better Basic Skills - what motivates adults.
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Food For Thought: Helping Prevent Disabilities In Babies
Only about half of British women of childbearing age are aware that folic acid can help prevent spina bifida in unborn babies, according to a new survey.
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Britain Today - Are We An Intolerant Nation?
A Reader's Digest survey reveals widespread intolerance of refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers in Britain.
The poll also exposes high levels of ignorance on both immigrant numbers and the financial assistance they are given. -
Promising Beginnings To Best Value
The Best Value regime has started well and is promoting change within local authorities, according to a new report1 published today.
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Poverty And Poor Health Create Isolation In Older People
New MORI research commissioned by the Help the Aged British Gas partnership reveals the wide scale problem of isolation in older people in Britain today. The survey findings show the disturbing link between low incomes and poor health and the scourges of too many older people's lives - isolation and loneliness.