Boris Johnson has been accused of watering down the rules for ministers after it was made clear they will not automatically lose their jobs if they breach the Ministerial Code.
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The healthcare regulator has issued a safety warning to an NHS trust embroiled in a scandal over baby deaths. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) told Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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The senior midwife appointed to lead an independent inquiry into maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals has said something is “very, very wrong” at the trust. Donna Ockenden, whose appointment
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Rishi Sunak has insisted he did not time handing out £21 billion worth of cost-of-living support to deflect from the controversy over Downing Street lockdown parties. The Chancellor bowed to
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Social workers have had to leave their homes because of abuse and threats following the trial of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’s killers, a council boss has said. Nick Page (pictured), chief executive
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The great-grandfather of murdered toddler Star Hobson has said she and her mother Frankie Smith were failed by social services. Smith, 20, was jailed last year for her role in
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A woman has been jailed for a minimum of 18 years for the murder of a one-year-old boy she was hoping to adopt. Leiland-James Corkill had been placed with Laura
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A struggling ambulance trust could face a “Titanic moment” and collapse entirely this summer, its nursing director has said, as committee papers warn of an England-wide “catastrophic situation”. Mark Docherty,
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Health workers have told of living “hand to mouth” and skipping meals amid a union warning that the NHS workforce is in “crisis”. Unison said the consequence of staff quitting
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Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money was spent for “nothing in return” because of “loopholes” in the contract for a privately run youth jail shut down over serious safety concerns,
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