The system depends on carers, yet leaves many financially vulnerable, says Paul Lewis

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Sitting in a restaurant in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in September 2022, Lisa, then 50, and I looked like old friends having a catch-up. In fact, we’d met for the first time that day, two grieving mums disc

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There was a time when news of a female prison officer embarking on an affair with an inmate would have had us all gasping in surprise. But with the flurry of court cases hitting the headlines these da