Revelations of historic abuse have been “shaming” for everyone involved in running boarding schools, according to a leading headmaster. Ray McGovern, chairman of the Boarding Schools Association (BSA), said such
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More than 9,000 criminals had their prison sentence suspended last year despite having more than 15 previous convictions or cautions, criminal justice campaigners have revealed. The Centre for Crime Prevention
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Government rules that prevent women from Northern Ireland receiving free abortions on the NHS in England have been upheld by the High Court. A test case was brought by a
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The most senior family judge in England and Wales has warned of the consequences of a “landmark” Supreme Court ruling on the rights of disabled people living in care facilities.
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The number of working people claiming housing benefit has risen by almost 60% since 2010, according to research commissioned by Labour. Figures compiled by the House of Commons Library for
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Automatic prison sentences for people caught carrying a knife twice would be a “step backwards”, Nick Clegg has claimed. In an intervention that is likely to anger the Liberal Democrats’
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More than a million families are struggling with “problem” debt with nearly three million extra households containing dependent children on the brink of sliding into financial difficulties, according to a
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The BBC has lost its appeal to the Supreme Court over a ban on journalists naming an immigrant who was deported after being jailed for gross indecency with a child.
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Kent County Council (KCC) has awarded Avante Community Support contracts to deliver Home Care services to new localitions in Kent. The company will continue to provide services for KCC clients
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Four out of five nurses do not think they are being given enough time to give patients adequate care. Eighty-two percent of nurses are so busy that they don’t have
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