Universal Credit would be scrapped under Labour plans to replace the Tories’ flagship welfare reforms with a social security system to support jobseekers with “dignity and respect”. Jeremy Corbyn called
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The most senior family court judge in England and Wales has apologised after taking nearly eight months to produce a written ruling on a case involving Home Office ministers and
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Boris Johnson is to announce a £200 million cash injection to replace MRI machines, CT scanners and breast screening equipment. The Prime Minister is pledging an overhaul to cancer screening,
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Ministers still have a “significant amount” of work to do to ensure the continued supply of vital medicines to the NHS in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the Whitehall
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Authorities “revictimised a whole generation of children that have been abused” by failing to believe their accounts, the detective leading a national probe into historical sexual abuse said. Believing complainants
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The number of cases coming to family courts is falling but domestic abuse applications are on the rise, figures show. In April to June, 64,813 new cases started in family
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“Welcome, you’re normal, we’ve been waiting for you” is the message would-be offenders are receiving from child abuse forums on the dark web. Rob Jones, director of threat leadership at
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Society will be “damaged beyond repair” if authorities do not work together to stem the “explosion of exploitation” threatening the vulnerable, a police chief said. Chief Constable Simon Bailey (pictured)
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Doctors plan to fit a mentally-disabled woman who was at the centre of an abortion battle with a contraceptive device, a judge has been told. The woman’s mother won a
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The Attorney General has apologised for appearing to make a “joke” about domestic violence. Responding to an urgent question in the Commons on the legal advice he gave the Government
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