Priti Patel has indicated street harassment such as wolf-whistling could become a specific crime as plans to better protect women and girls widespread safety concerns are unveiled. The Home Secretary
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The first meeting to establish the values of a National Care Service in Scotland has been held between politicians and people with experience of the social care system. Health Secretary
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Reforming the social care system could boost the UK economy by up to £20 billion a year by helping disabled people into work, charity research suggests. Making social care more
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A prisons watchdog has warned the Government against learning the “wrong lesson from the pandemic” as he said inmates were “not being rehabilitated while they are banged up”. In his
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Charities have urged the Government to overhaul its “woefully flawed” welfare assessment process for people with disabilities. Minister for Disabled People Justin Tomlinson published a Green Paper in the House
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A centre for sexual assault victims has been praised by the Justice Secretary as a “beacon” of the model he would like to see across Scotland. The Meadows, based at
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Theresa May has sounded warnings over the prospect of the UK sending asylum seekers to Australia-style offshore processing centres. The former prime minister said she considered the idea when home
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Further planned surgeries have been cancelled as a health board’s three acute hospitals experience unprecedented levels of pressure. NHS Lanarkshire said that increased Covid-19 cases, staff shortages due to annual
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Around 40,000 care home staff risk being lost as a result of introducing compulsory Covid-19 vaccinations in England and could cost the industry £100 million to replace, according to the
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The Government’s two-child limit benefits policy should be scrapped and families given more help if it is to tackle child poverty, a new report recommends. The Social Mobility Commission (SMC)
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