Welfare cuts will leave an estimated quarter of a million more people, including 50,000 children, in relative poverty after housing costs across Great Britain by the end of the decade,
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves does not “recognise” reports suggesting that ministers are looking at reducing the number of children in England who receive free school meals. Ms Reeves is expected to
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Unions have warned that as many as 50,000 people could lose their jobs and vital services could deteriorate after Rachel Reeves confirmed plans to cut Civil Service running costs by
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The forthcoming plan to fix the NHS will see funds allocated to social care, the Health Secretary has suggested. Wes Streeting said spending NHS resources “more effectively though social care”
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The Government has been accused of an “absence of humanity” as defiant peers maintained their stand-off over plans to hike employers’ national insurance, amid warnings over the impact on hospices.
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Pressures continue to push councils towards the “financial brink” as they face a multibillion-pound funding gap, according to a report. The Local Government Association (LGA) said its research among more
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Sarah, Duchess of York was among the people who offered to try to help secure PPE in the early months of the Covid crisis, an inquiry has heard. The royal
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Three people have died amid a listeria outbreak linked to desserts supplied to NHS hospitals and care homes. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) confirmed it has been investigating five
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A deaf TikTok star who died after ingesting a poison she ordered online was assessed as being at “high risk” of suicide two days before her death, an inquest has
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Ex-MP Owen Paterson’s involvement with a company awarded a contract to supply millions of Covid tests was not a conflict of interest, a former minister told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
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