The Government’s flagship welfare reform could leave women vulnerable to domestic abuse, a parliamentary human rights watchdog has warned. Universal credit, which was rolled out nationwide on Monday, could expose
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One in seven patients with a history of dementia are not being identified as having the condition when they are admitted to hospital in England, a study suggests. Failure to
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Spiralling childcare costs mean that for many families “it simply does not pay to work”, a major report has warned. It suggests that despite heavy Government spending, childcare prices have
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A mental health trust has become the first in the country to be put into special measures, the health sector regulator has said. Urgent improvements are needed to the care
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The number of people killing themselves in the UK rose in 2013, official figures revealed today, as male suicides hit their highest rate in more than a decade. A total
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Courts which help parents deal with drug or alcohol addiction so they can keep their children are to be extended in more areas of England. With courts currently operating across
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More than a third of older people believe Britain has become a worse place to live over the past year, a new study has shown. A survey of more than
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All family court judges in England will be able to order DNA tests to determine a child’s parentage from September, Justice Minister Simon Hughes has announced. The move follows two
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There are still children at risk of becoming victims of sexual exploitation who have not been identified by authorities, the Office of the Children’s Commissioner (OCC) has warned. In a
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Senior managers at a local authority have been criticised by the most senior family court judge in England and Wales over the way they handled a case involving a toddler
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