More than half a million people in Greater Manchester are living in poverty despite its economic success, a report has found. Greater Manchester – which is the UK’s third largest
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Dame Lowell Goddard, the head of Britain’s inquiry into child abuse, has spent more than 70 days working abroad or on holiday in her first year in the role. This
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The Amy Winehouse Foundation – the charity set up following the singer’s death – is opening a home for women recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. Called Amy’s Place, the
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A leading Aids charity has won a High Court battle over whether a preventative treatment for HIV which charities say is a “game-changer” can legally be funded by the NHS.
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The Home Office has won its appeal against a landmark ruling allowing four Syrian refugees living in the “Jungle” camp in Calais to come to Britain. An immigration judge ruled
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The parents of a baby boy who died in hospital have appeared in court accused of child cruelty. Hannah Henry, 20, and Alistair Walker, 26, faced magistrates charged in connection
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A 10-year-old boy born with foetal alcohol syndrome has found himself at the centre of an Anglo-Irish legal debate after his adoptive parents said they were struggling to cope. The
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NHS England is to appeal against a High Court ruling that it has the power to commission a drug described as a “game changer” in the fight against HIV/Aids –
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New guidelines will allow immigration detainees to be put in solitary confinement for being “stubborn”, a leading human rights campaign group has said. Liberty condemned the “unprecedented” new Home Office
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Social services bosses say lawyers advised them that they “couldn’t have appealed” when a senior family court judge ruled that Ellie Butler should return to live with the father who
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