England’s elderly will be eligible for state-funded support if they need help with basic tasks including getting out of bed, washing and feeding themselves under Labour plans for a National
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An estimated 8.4 million people across England are living in unaffordable, insecure or unsuitable homes, according to the National Housing Federation. People within this group face issues ranging from homelessness
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A student found hanged at her halls of residence faced an “unacceptable delay” waiting for a mental health appointment at her university, a coroner has said. University of Liverpool student
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A “devoted, loving son” who killed his dying mother to end her suffering by dropping her from a first floor fire escape at a care home has been given a
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The Government has “apologised unreservedly” for “unacceptable failings” in probation services which contributed to a five-year-old boy being beaten to death by his mother’s boyfriend. An inquest into the death
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The current system for fining people who wrongly claim free prescriptions is not fit for purpose, MPs have said. In a damning report, the Commons Public Accounts Committee said a
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More genetic testing and trials must be rolled out for children if the UK is to avoid failing future generations of young cancer patients, an expert has said. Authors of
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United Nations inspectors have been drafted into UK prisons and detention centres amid concerns over conditions and treatment of inmates. The members of the UN subcommittee for the Prevention of
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Scotland’s most senior bishop has told a child abuse inquiry that as an abbot he was aware of a monk being sent to Fort Augustus Abbey because of allegations against
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The parents of a five-year-old boy battling leukaemia have been “overwhelmed” by the response to their £500,000 appeal to pay for lifesaving treatment. Oscar Saxelby-Lee (pictured) is now locked in
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