A Government minister has said it is “not correct” that people are forced to use food banks as he suggested relying on free handouts is a personal choice. Veterans Minister
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Child sexual exploitation might be under-reported during school holidays, a charity has warned, after data suggested dips in the monthly average police records of such abuse outside of term time.
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A care worker has been jailed for abusing three care home residents with dementia almost 40 times. Sharlene Bosita (pictured) was seen on CCTV making it look like she was
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The Government has no plans to remove care workers from the shortage occupation list to cut immigration despite calls from Tory MPs, Downing Street said. No 10 also downplayed the
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There is a “culture of cover-up” in the NHS and “ingrained defensiveness” when it comes to patients being harmed or suffering avoidable death, the health ombudsman said as he published
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The Home Secretary lashed out at “phoney humanitarianism” hindering efforts to stop Channel crossings as the Government lost the latest court battle over its plans to send migrants to Rwanda.
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Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds has revealed she was given up for adoption when she was two weeks old, as she tracked down her birth mother for a new documentary. The
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Almost 2,000 patients died within one month of being discharged from a trust specialising in mental health and learning disability care, an independent review has revealed. The way in which
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One in seven people in the UK faced hunger in the last year due to a lack of money, new research has suggested, with ethnic minorities, disabled people and carers
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Scottish former health secretary Jeane Freeman has admitted the country could have been better prepared to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, but “no plan” could have helped the country cope.
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