The government is being warned of a crisis in maternity care as midwives work extra hours to ensure services are safe. The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said pay was
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Leading charities have called for an independent inquiry into how more than 200 asylum-seeking children have gone “missing” from Home Office hotels, describing the situation as “a child protection scandal”.
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Young people are being trafficked across the Channel to the UK and then “into cannabis farms or into prostitution”, Labour has suggested. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper (pictured) said there
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The Princess of Wales said she is “excited” about a new early years campaign she is launching as she met her team of advisers on the subject for the first
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The mother of a baby who died in hospital just 23 minutes after being born has said she was “failed in the most cruel way” by an NHS Trust which
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Rishi Sunak is facing calls to abandon the Government’s controversial attempt to overhaul human rights legislation amid a warning that it would seriously damage people’s ability to enforce their rights.
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A mother has described how her autistic daughter, who has epilepsy and significant learning disabilities, was grabbed by the wrist and dragged across the floor at a residential home which
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Charities have criticised Government plans to create a single strategy to tackle major illnesses such as cancer, mental health and dementia. Health Secretary Steve Barclay said on Tuesday that the
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Archbishops have called for a “radical redesign” of England’s “broken” social care system. A so-called National Care Covenant, setting out the rights and responsibilities of national and local government, communities,
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The Home Office is investigating reports that dozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs from a hotel run by the department, a minister has said. Conservative frontbencher Lord
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