Welfare changes meaning people will lose their benefits if they do not look for a job will tackle a current “waste of potential” in the population, the Chancellor has said,
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Jeremy Hunt has gone from “hero to zero on social care”, according to campaigners who branded the absence of any new funding commitments to the struggling sector “shameful”. The only
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Failures in language interpretation in the NHS were linked to about 80 babies coming to harm, with some even dying, according to an investigation. BBC Radio 4’s File On 4
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A mother has told an inquiry her daughter felt she “lost her family” due to restrictions in care homes during the Covid-19 pandemic. Verona Gibson, a member of Care Home
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A haulage boss accused of being part of a people-smuggling ring linked to the deaths of 39 migrants tried to stop his mother “gossiping” after news of the tragedy broke,
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The bungled handling of the release of personal information about Nicola Bulley’s health struggles was “avoidable and unnecessary”, and police and media need to rebuild trust, police chiefs have said.
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Pandemic preparedness plans in place ahead of the Covid-19 crisis were “not particularly helpful” and would have been “woefully deficient” even for a flu pandemic, England’s chief medical officer has
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The Chancellor has been urged to provide emergency funding to protect crucial services after it emerged the share of council budgets spent on protecting vulnerable children has ballooned, with allocations
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Assisted dying critics have warned The Great British Bake Off judge Dame Prue Leith that legislative proposals in Scotland will put the “vulnerable at risk of coercion”. The TV judge
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Children in care may be left without the right support unless town hall budgets are boosted in the autumn statement, councils have warned the Chancellor. The Local Government Association (LGA),
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