A training resource aimed at enhancing child-centred responses to violence against children, co-designed with children and young people, has been launched by academics from Queen’s University Belfast and Include Youth.
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A care home for older people in must make urgent improvements in the care experienced by vulnerable residents, inspectors have said. The Care Inspectorate has served a formal Improvement Notice
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Sir Rod Stewart is hoping to raise £1 million for the fight against cancer with an exclusive gig. The veteran star will host and perform at a secret dinner party,
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Around one in four memory clinic patients are likely to have a poorly understood brain condition which may be overlooked or misdiagnosed, a study suggests. People who are likely to
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The growing cost of social care has meant councils have been forced to slash funding by 40% for other services, a report has found. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
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A food bank charity says it has recorded its busiest ever six month period, with more than a third of its emergency parcels going to children. The Trussell Trust, which
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Health funding will be boosted by £26 billion under a Labour government which will cover the cost by taxing the richest in society, the party has pledged. Labour said its
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A public inquiry has been announced into the death of a man in police custody. Scotland’s Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf told MSPs it would look into the “circumstances leading up
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A family friend has described outside court how Tristan and Blake Barrass were “beautiful, confident and outgoing boys who both had a bright future ahead of them”. Matthew Saunders said
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One of the surviving children of Sarah Barrass and Brandon Machin fears they will also become a murderer “because that’s what mum and Brandon did”. The two older children –
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