More than 3,000 children were strip-searched by police in a year, and more than a third were black, figures show. There were 65,336 strip-searches carried out by 28 of 43
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Key social care reforms will be delayed by two years, the Chancellor has confirmed, with billions of funding to be provided to help deliver more care packages. Jeremy Hunt (pictured)
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A new network for LGBTQ+ people over the age of 50 has been launched. Age Scotland officially launched the network in Edinburgh on Wednesday, attended by Christina McKelvie MSP, minister
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Housing Secretary Michael Gove has vowed to hold landlords to account following the death of a two-year-old boy who suffered prolonged exposure to mould in a housing association flat. Awaab
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A stepmother murdered her autistic three-year-old stepson by inflicting a broken skull and unsurvivable brain damage while slapping him “multiple times” around the head, a jury has been told. Leila
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The nation’s mental health has “failed to rebound after the pandemic”, a charity has warned – with research suggesting around three in 10 adults’ mental health has deteriorated since the
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The Government must “begin reversing the family poverty crisis” by increasing child benefit and making changes to ensure children in larger families are not penalised, a new report warns. Even
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A mentally ill man who was accused of harassing supermodel Kate Moss has been detained indefinitely for killing his divorced parents after absconding from a psychiatric unit. William Warrington, 42,
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More than four million children are living in families which receive Universal Credit, latest figures suggest. Some 4,030,796 children were living in households receiving the benefit as of August, according
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The death of a young boy who suffered prolonged exposure to mould is an “unacceptable tragedy”, the Housing Secretary has said. Awaab Ishak (pictured), two, died in December 2020 from
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