Many cancer patients are “left to struggle” following the end of their treatment, a charity has said. Physical problems which can arise as a result of some cancer treatments such
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A group that aims to improve children’s experiences of the family court system has produced a child’s guide to legal language. The Family Justice Young People’s Board says children embroiled
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Nine females – three aged 11 – have been approached and sexually touched by an attacker in the last three months, police said. Two women aged 27 and 25, and
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A report into a riot-hit jail has revealed inmates were locked up for as much as 23 hours a day and highlighted a failure to provide soap, cleaning materials and
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A shortage of care home beds is seeing undue and unfair pressure put on people to take relatives discharged from hospital despite being unable to cope, ministers have been told.
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Women’s refuges across the country have had their budgets cut by nearly a quarter in the last seven years, according to new figures. Budgets have been slashed despite the number
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The scale of modern slavery in the UK is much greater than previously thought, a watchdog has warned. Kevin Hyland, the independent anti-slavery commissioner, described an official estimate suggesting there
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A Cambridge University graduate has pleaded guilty to 137 offences – including blackmailing victims into sending him severe abuse images of themselves and sharing them on the dark web. Dr
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Mental health workers are spending “precious clinical time” helping patients deal with wider problems such as filling in benefits forms or calling energy providers, finance champion Martin Lewis has said.
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Fear of hostility has stopped nearly one in three disabled people from going out in their local area, according to new research. A poll of 1,609 disabled adults in the
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