With more children in care in England than ever before, and the government about to publish a report on the deaths of two toddlers at the hands of their parent’s new partners, Panorama investigates how social workers make critical decisions about children’s lives.\n\nGranted rare, exclusive permission from the family courts, reporter Louise Tickle hears from families who have been damaged by decisions made by one local authority. With the government pushing social workers to step in earlier than ever, what happens if they go too far, too fast?
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Can We Live Without Our Phones?
What happens when smartphones are taken away from kids for a week? With the help of two families and lots of remote cameras, Panorama finds out. Do they talk to their parents mo ...
06-09-2024
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The Riots That Shocked The Country
A knife attack on a Taylor Swift dance workshop in Southport left three children dead and eight others seriously injured. The killings then sparked the worst rioting on our stre ...
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The Nottingham Attacks: A Search For Answers
In June 2023, Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were stabbed to death by Valdo Calocane. Reporter Navtej Johal investigates his history of mental ill health, t ...
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Labour In Power: Inside The New Government
Labour is back in power with a big majority and some big promises. The new government says it will fix the NHS, grow the economy and build thousands of new homes, but right now ...
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Britain’s Child Health Crisis
From tooth decay to obesity, our children’s health is in decline, and it’s storing up trouble for the future. Keir Starmer has promised his new government will tackl ...
19-07-2024
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Undercover School: Cruelty In The Classroom
Panorama investigates a school for children with special educational needs. Places at LIFE school in the Wirral cost the local authority £50,000 or more a year per pupil, ...
21-06-2024
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Undercover: Can Probation Keep Us Safe?
Panorama goes undercover in the Probation Service and reveals how easy it is for convicted criminals to go on the run, that drug tests are not being carried out because they are ...
31-05-2024
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The Crime Bosses Who Terrorised A City
For years, they trafficked huge quantities of drugs and threatened anyone who stood in their way. Now most of the gangsters who ran the Huyton Firm are behind bars after 10,000 ...
28-05-2024
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Infected Blood: Time For Answers
Between 1970 and the early 1990s more than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and Hepatitis C through contaminated blood products and transfusions. It has been descr ...
17-05-2024
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Electric Cars: Is It Time To Buy?
With the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to be banned in less than seven years, we’re all supposed to be going electric. But so far fewer than one in thirty vehicles on ...
16-06-2023
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Is The Cloud Damaging The Planet?
We all love the cloud. It stores our pictures and emails, it powers our internet searches, and it helps us stream movies and box sets. But out of sight, the cloud depends on pro ...
10-02-2023
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Police Under Pressure
With a surge of violent crime in London and recorded crime rising across the country, Panorama films with four police forces to ask if Britain's police can cope. The film reveal ...
21-05-2018
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Pension Rip Offs Exposed
Panorama goes undercover to expose how the Government's latest pension freedoms are being abused by some companies to get their hands on people's retirement pots.
11-07-2016
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Is China Watching You?
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30-06-2023
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Cost Of Living: Can’t Afford My Home
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Royal Mail: Where’s My Post?
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01-03-2024
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Midwives Under Pressure
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02-02-2024
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The Big Mortgage Squeeze
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13-10-2023
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Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed
Lucy Letby has been convicted of murdering and harming babies. So what turned a likeable nurse into a serial killer? For the first time, Panorama hears from a family whose child ...
23-08-2023
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