The number of emergency food parcels handed out across the UK in a single year has reached its highest level, at more than three million. The Trussell Trust food bank
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A care home provider has been fined £24,981 for failing to protect an elderly resident who had 10 falls before he died from a traumatic head injury. Claremont Care Services
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Former Northern Ireland first minister Baroness Arlene Foster has denied “sectarianising” Stormont’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic by deploying a controversial veto mechanism to prevent the extension of restrictions. Giving
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More than 20,000 people have volunteered to be part of a study aimed at speeding up the development of dementia drugs. The group will enable scientists to involve healthy people
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The potential mental health impacts of all new government policies should be assessed before they are put in place, a new report has urged. The Centre for Mental Health charity
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Emergency legislation is needed to assert “beyond doubt” the UK “controls our own borders”, Tory MPs have said, amid claims over EU influence in Northern Ireland. The UK Government has
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Asylum seekers at risk of being deported are not being removed from Scotland to England to deny them legal aid, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has said. During justice questions in
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An anti-overdose drug is to be made more widely available without a prescription. Professionals, including nurses, paramedics, police officers and probation workers, will be able to provide supplies of naloxone
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A review of efforts to safeguard Arthur Labinjo-Hughes has said it is difficult to understand why police did not step in after being sent a photograph of bruising suggesting he
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Stormont First Minister Michelle O’Neill has said she accepts she should have kept WhatsApp exchanges for the Covid-19 Inquiry rather than wiping her phone. The inquiry previously heard that a
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