Britons who sponsor immigration visas for family visitors or overseas staff, including nannies and other domestic workers, will face £1,000 fines if they overstay, under immigration reforms unveiled yesterday.

A £16m scheme to give housing help to more than 17,000 people in Norfolk has been rated as good by watchdogs. The Audit Commission gave the Supporting People Programme a two-star rating and said it had “excellent” prospects for improvement.

The government is due today to unveil steps universities must take to stamp out campus anti-semitism. The communities minister, Phil Woolas, is expected to announce that the police should use existing powers under the Public Order Act 1986 to prosecute Islamic extremists, and others, if they make any speeches on campus which are anti-semitic.

Hundreds of mental health patients are being denied emergency care because NHS managers will not give them access to crisis help. Carers have complained to an NHS watchdog that Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Healthcare Trust (OBMHT) should allow more people the 24-hour support provided by the county’s two crisis teams.

The Home Office will be split into two separate departments for security and justice, the BBC has learned. A new Ministry of Justice will oversee probation, prisons and preventing re-offending, Tony Blair is expected to tell MPs later.

A new network giving Leeds people the power and skills to improve their own health is being launched. Community organisations all across Leeds will sign up to the Community Health Development Network, allowing them to share their expertise and best practice on improving people’s health.

A 15-year-old boy has been charged following the rape of an 11-year-old boy. The victim was attacked on Tuesday morning in a wooded area off Beta Road, in Farnborough, Hampshire.

Allowing hospital trusts to run controversial CATS centres could use up vital NHS funds and see hospitals fail to hit waiting time targets, it was claimed today.

An Exmouth brain injuries day-centre has been given a week to vacate its premises, and the carers say their patients have nowhere else to go. Headway Devon has used the Marjorie Moore centre at Danby House, run by Devon County Council, in Mudbank Lane for weekly Thursday-morning sessions since 2000.

The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has announced it has appointed a new chair. Michael Leadbetter is to join the organisation from the beginning of April and brings a wealth of experience from across the children and young people’s sector.