More than a third of people caring unpaid for family members or friends feel unable to manage their caring role, a survey suggests. Carers UK said carers are exhausted after
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Kent County Council is threatening the Home Secretary with legal action as it warns its services for unaccompanied child migrants are at breaking point for the second time in less
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Vulnerable children in Scotland may have been detained unlawfully in secure accommodation, an investigation by the Scottish Children and Young People’s Commissioner has found. The commissioner’s investigation concluded that councils
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A Scottish man has finally left hospital nearly 200 days after he was first admitted with coronavirus. Neil McLaughlin was taken to University Hospital Hairmyres in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire,
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An NHS trust’s mental health service has been criticised for failing to have a plan to deal with children in crisis following the inquest into the death of a troubled
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A woman’s life may have been saved if mental health workers had not missed her relationship with a convicted killer because they were “entirely reliant” on him reporting it, a
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There has been a “marked increase” in the number of people with self-reported long Covid that has lasted for at least a year, according to new UK figures. Long Covid,
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Police say they need to boost their capabilities to hunt and catch online criminals as figures show a rise in internet child sexual abuse and fraud. A total of 1,966
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More than a third of trials heard by a sheriff sitting alone in the past year were domestic abuse cases, new figures show. Some 34% of sheriff summary trials called
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Six asylum seekers formerly housed at Napier Barracks have won a legal challenge against the Government after a High Court judge ruled their accommodation was inadequate. The former Army barracks
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