Ranked #1
The Children 'Vanishing' From Schools
The Children 'Vanishing' From Schools
Thousands of children with special educational needs are disappearing from education with ‘concerning’ consequences, Ofs... Read more
18 Nov 2018
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49mins
Ranked #2
Domestic Abuse
Domestic Abuse
More than half of all domestic abuse cases investigated by the police result in no action being taken against the offend... Read more
23 Nov 2014
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55mins
Ranked #3
Anxiety Drugs and Fundraising
Anxiety Drugs and Fundraising
The programme investigates deaths linked to benzodiazepines, addictive drugs used to treat stress and anxiety. While the... Read more
20 Dec 2015
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49mins
Ranked #4
Police Strip Searches
Police Strip Searches
5 live Investigates reveals startling new figures on the number of strip searches carried out by police. The Metropolita... Read more
30 Oct 2016
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44mins
Ranked #5
Disappearing online daters
Disappearing online daters
Customers of online dating sites owned by Cupid plc voice their suspicions about the flirty daters who mysteriously disa... Read more
24 Feb 2013
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46mins
Ranked #6
Child Trafficking
Child Trafficking
An investigation by BBC 5 Live has revealed that 239 unaccompanied, asylum-seeking children went missing from care in En... Read more
17 Apr 2016
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41mins
Ranked #7
Football Academies & Retail Fraud
Football Academies & Retail Fraud
5 Live Investigates finds out what clubs in Leagues one and two really think of reforms to the football academy system. ... Read more
28 Apr 2013
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53mins
Ranked #8
Dementia Care
Dementia Care
5Live Investigates examines the routine care people with dementia receive when in an acute hospital. Previously unseen r... Read more
22 Apr 2018
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44mins
Ranked #9
False Accusations
False Accusations
Why would anyone make a false accusation of sexual abuse? We hear from someone who did just that and from another man wh... Read more
20 Jan 2013
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49mins
Ranked #10
School Transport Cuts
School Transport Cuts
Education Secretary Justine Greening orders a review of council policies around school transport provision for disabled ... Read more
10 Sep 2017
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44mins
Ranked #11
Emergency Care Pressures
Emergency Care Pressures
Thousands of hours of emergency ambulance time each week is lost because crews have to queue to offload patients at A+E.... Read more
12 May 2013
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50mins
Ranked #12
The Men Who Go Missing
The Men Who Go Missing
Teenager Thomas Jones went missing on a night out with friends during his first week at university in Worcester. His bod... Read more
3 Mar 2019
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44mins
Ranked #13
Teachers on Social Media & Sport Supplements
Teachers on Social Media & Sport Supplements
Social Media being used by some teachers to form improper relationships with pupils. Also, the call for tougher regulati... Read more
25 Nov 2012
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46mins
Ranked #14
Prison violence and A&E waiting times
Prison violence and A&E waiting times
5 live Investigates takes a look behind bars via a series of leaked prison incident reports from a five day period in Ja... Read more
7 Feb 2016
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47mins
Ranked #15
Mental Health & Steroid Use
Mental Health & Steroid Use
Mental health services need to get the same investment, planning and attention that is given to physical health says NHS... Read more
2 Mar 2014
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48mins
Ranked #16
Supermarkets Misleading Shoppers
Supermarkets Misleading Shoppers
5 Live Investigates has discovered three of the UK’s leading supermarkets are misleading customers by selling food which... Read more
24 Feb 2019
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49mins
Ranked #17
Obesity Fire Rescue Costs
Obesity Fire Rescue Costs
Fire and Rescue services in the UK are called out to assist severely obese people more than ten times a week. Each incid... Read more
11 Nov 2012
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47mins
Ranked #18
Deprivation of Liberty Orders
Deprivation of Liberty Orders
Care and health workers are failing to follow proper procedure before curtailing the freedoms of patients suffering from... Read more
7 Apr 2013
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49mins
Ranked #19
Fake Self-Employment in the Work Programme
Fake Self-Employment in the Work Programme
Why would welfare to work advisers tell the long-term unemployed to become self-employed? Adrian Goldberg hears from a r... Read more
3 Feb 2013
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48mins
Ranked #20
Restraint in special schools
Restraint in special schools
Hundreds of children have been injured whilst being physically restrained in special schools, according to figures obtai... Read more
9 Apr 2017
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49mins