Shirley Ballas, 63, grew up in a small council flat on the Leasowe Estate in Wallasey in the 1960s, a time when her mother worked multiple jobs to keep food on the table, according to ITV.
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Councils are calling on the government for support to help them reunite children with their families and reduce local authorities’ children in care costs, according to a survey.
Jacob Crouch (image) is the latest in a string of fatal cases of child abuse to have emerged from the pandemic including that of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Lola James and Star Hobson.