Sexual abuse thrived in the Anglican Church due to clerical naivety about exploitation risks and an “excessive emphasis” on forgiving predators, an inquiry has heard. The Independent Inquiry into Child
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Ministers have ruled out imposing measures that could have resulted in school secretaries, caterers and caretakers facing jail if they failed to raise the alarm about child abuse. In 2016
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Care home residents are suffering because they and their families are not told about important parts of their contracts before they sign, an investigation has found. Which? said care homes
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Chancellor Philip Hammond must use his Spring Statement to help struggling councils which are acting as “human shields” for the Government’s “failed economic policy of austerity”, John McDonnell will say.
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A “one-stop” service to test for prostate cancer is set to cut diagnosis times from six weeks to just a number of days, according to the national health service. The
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Two police officers accused of spying on a woman campaigning about the death in custody of her brother have “no case to answer” a police misconduct hearing has found. The
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Medics have been given the go-ahead to continue feeding a bed-bound man with severe learning disabilities who had been at the centre of a “quality of life” dispute in a
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Skills for Care have announced the winners of the 2018 Care Accolades celebrating excellence in workforce development for the 1.45 million people who work in adult social care in England.
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Two thirds of pancreatic cancer patients are being told that there is no way of treating their cancer after they receive a diagnosis, a charity has warned. Analysis by the
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Former child migrants who were exposed to sexual violence and other threats during a “fundamentally flawed” overseas settlement policy should be offered financial compensation by the Government, a report has
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