More families are likely to be “pulled into poverty” because of the continued freeze on working age benefits and tax credits, according to a new report. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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Around 100,000 children under five have never done activities at home with their parents to try to boost their learning skills, a survey suggests. The Department for Education poll of
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Almost two-thirds (63%) of UK charities believe that Brexit will have a negative impact on their work, according to a new report. Nearly a quarter (23%) of charity leaders said
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A woman has promised to keep her son in “line of sight” when he leaves home while a judge considers whether public protection measures need to be put in place.
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Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has announced a review into how health boards use cash donated to NHS endowment funds following a scandal at NHS Tayside. The Scottish Government was forced
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A charity operating a psychiatric facility where a teenager was found hanged when it launched a programme of fitness and wellbeing is being investigated by the Charity Commission. Sophie Bennett,
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A 73-year-old woman who beat her “control freak” husband to death with a wooden pole after he treated her like a slave has been jailed for two years and four
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A health board’s treatment of 14 breast cancer patients who died will be reviewed by an independent expert after bosses admitted hundreds of patients were given lower doses of chemotherapy.
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The family of a woman who killed her husband in a hammer attack said they were “overjoyed” as she prepared to walk free from prison after almost a decade behind
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Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people in the UK have been “comprehensively failed” and ministers must set out how they will improve outcomes for the communities, the Women and Equalities Committee
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