Concerns are growing over an increase in Covid-19 cases in care homes, prompting the Government to send an alert to care providers to highlight the rising rates and to call
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Frontline NHS workers, many of whom have been helping to fight the coronavirus pandemic, have protested to demand better wages. Campaigners in central London, many wearing scrubs or other NHS
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Netflix has defended the controversial film Cuties as “a social commentary against the sexualisation of young children”, and encouraged people to watch the movie before passing judgment. Critics have blasted
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Social care in England must be urgently reformed after the Covid-19 pandemic coupled with a chronic lack of investment “threatened to break an already fragile system”, a doctors’ union has
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A serial thief who repeatedly targeted hospitals during the national Covid-19 lockdown has been given a four-and-a-half year jail term. Wayne Bradley, 30, described by West Midlands Police as a
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The UK’s largest care home operator is facing claims for damages from families of residents who died with coronavirus. PBW Law is bringing a civil action against HC-One on behalf
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The Government must ban councils from placing all vulnerable children in unregulated accommodation amid concerns over sexual and criminal exploitation, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said. Anne Longfield (pictured)
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A man has won a family court fight over the care of two children after going on anger management courses. Council social workers raised concern about the man’s “physical chastisement”
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A 16-year-old boy who is involved in gangs and drugs should go into council care for his own safety, a judge has decided. Deputy High Court judge Darren Howe ruled
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Nicola Sturgeon has thanked a man who shared his story detailing the debilitating symptoms of “long haul” coronavirus. Callum O’Dwyer, 28, was diagnosed with the virus in March and was
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