Public sector workers on the front line of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic will be given a pay rise, the Chancellor has announced. Doctors, teachers and police officers are among
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A working single mother has won a landmark High Court challenge against the Government’s Universal Credit rules for assessing earnings. The Department for Work and Pensions’ approach to calculating earnings
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The Covid-19 vaccine being developed at the University of Oxford is safe and induces an immune reaction, “encouraging” preliminary results of the study suggest. Researchers say their tests have revealed
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The Government has signed deals for 90 million doses of promising Covid-19 vaccines, with more in the pipeline. The latest deal is for vaccines being developed by an alliance between
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More than a hundred people with learning disabilities received care so poor that it significantly affected their wellbeing or “directly contributed” to their death, a report has found. Some 7,145
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A rise in the number of self-harm incidents in immigration detention centres is the chilling effect of the Government’s “hostile environment”, it has been claimed. Home Office statistics indicate that
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An alliance has been formed to protect renters from eviction and keep people in jobs and housing in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. Lord John Bird, founder of The
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The families of two disabled care home residents who were seriously injured in unexplained circumstances have launched a legal campaign for justice. Gary Lewis (left) and Matthew Bates (right) were
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A cluster of coronavirus infections has been confirmed at an NHS Test and Trace call centre in North Lanarkshire. Measures have been brought in by the region’s health board to
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A Belfast nurse is heading up a new coronavirus isolation and treatment centre in the world’s largest refugee camp. Rachel Fletcher has been working in Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh
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