Parents are still waiting in “limbo” because of failings in the Government’s 30 hours of free childcare scheme, Labour has said. Shadow education minister Tracy Brabin attacked the policy for
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Tory backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg has been branded “extreme” after revealing he is opposed to abortion in all circumstances, including rape and incest. The Catholic father-of-six, often dubbed “the MP for
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Plans to make it easier for male victims of sexual and domestic abuse to come forward it have been unveiled by prosecutors in what has been described as a “landmark
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Unqualified support workers are practising in the NHS with job titles that describe them as nurses with advanced skills, experts have warned. A new study found that thousands of nursing
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Leaked Government proposals to force a post-Brexit cut in the number of low-skilled migrants to Britain have been branded “morally bankrupt” by Scotland’s First Minister. Nicola Sturgeon warned the “dreadful”
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Drug-related crime, deaths and blood-borne viruses could all surge as a result of funding cuts for substance misuse treatment services, government advisers have warned. In a stark message to ministers,
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A new series of reports into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal have been branded a “completely wasted opportunity” by the town’s MP Sarah Champion after they concluded individual senior
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Two thousand nurses are expected to hold a demonstration over pay in Parliament Square today. Beginning immediately after the first Prime Minister’s Questions of the new parliamentary year, the rally
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Council social workers may not be able to find carers who are an “ethnic match” for five children taken from home in the wake of concern about their parents’ drug
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Councillor Susan Aitken, Leader of Glasgow City Council, has officially opened the latest 120-bedded care home to be completed as part of the council’s £100m Tomorrow’s Residential and Day Care
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