The world is running out of antibiotics, global health leaders have warned. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that “antimicrobial resistance is a global health emergency”. Growing resistance to drugs
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Twin babies whose parents both have learning difficulties and met while living in supported accommodation must be placed for adoption, a family court judge has ruled. Both parents, who are
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Domestic abuse continues to be a “scourge” on society more than 40 years after the introduction of historic legislation designed to protect women, according to the most senior family court
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A care home for older people near Oban has been told to make urgent improvements in the care provided to vulnerable residents. The Care Inspectorate has served a formal Improvement
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“Far too little” is being done to prevent child domestic abuse and repair the lasting damage it does, a report has found. The second of a two-part “targeted area inspection”
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Social workers are facing “intense pressure” to ration social care for some of the most vulnerable people in society, a report has claimed. Local authorities are “scrabbling” to fulfil their
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An investigation has been launched after a Chinese man was found dead at an immigration detention centre. The body of the man was discovered at Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre in
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Two men who were fostered by the same British couple are being questioned by police investigating the Parsons Green bombing, it has been claimed. An 18-year-old, understood to be suspected
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Girlguides in Manchester have launched a UK first with a new badge to tackle loneliness in old people. Youngsters have been visiting homes for the elderly and sheltered housing centres
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A former Church of England priest has been jailed for 12 years for a string of sexual offences against two boys dating back to the late 1980s. Jonathan Graves, of
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