A rising number of modern slavery victims are being used by crime gangs to carry out home improvement scams, according to Trading Standards. Teams across England are reporting more cases
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Police have issued a CCTV image of a man in an appeal for information after a young boy reported he was sexually assaulted in his bedroom by an intruder. Officers
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Patients experience a “postcode lottery” in accessing physiotherapy following a knee or hip replacement, researchers say. Their new study found that people are more likely to receive physiotherapy if they
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Calls to tackle the “growing mental health crisis” have been made as cases handled by police officers rose more than a quarter in the last four years. The head of
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The “excessively high” fee the Government charges children to register as a British citizen effectively removes their entitlement to citizenship, the High Court has heard. The Project for the Registration
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Access to NHS mental health care is getting worse, according to a nationwide survey of patients carried out by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The poll of 12,551 people who
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A football-mad couple who campaigned to make matches more accessible for children with autism have received MBEs. Peter and Kathryn Shippey’s charity, The Shippey Campaign, introduced the first “sensory rooms”
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A highly decorated police officer who had a child abuse video on her phone has avoided a jail term – but has been told her career is all but over.
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Today the MS Trust launches its #fairMScare campaign, aimed at raising awareness about the desperate shortage of MS nurses in the UK. Latest figures show there are now approximately 130,000
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Autistic people, people with autistic family members and people with a learning disability have guided the development of two new core capabilities frameworks. These frameworks can help ensure that staff
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