The number of workers on zero-hours contracts has increased by a fifth over the past year, official figures show. Just over 900,000 people say they work on a zero-hours basis
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A High Court judge is set to analyse evidence at a trial after social services staff asked for help protecting a vulnerable teenage girl they say is being sexually exploited
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The future of the NHS is in danger along with the principle of universal healthcare free at the point of delivery, it has been warned. Labour peer Viscount Hanworth also
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The number of days lost through so-called “bed blocking” in England is at its highest monthly level on record. Patients taking up beds when they no longer required hospital care
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A national dispersal scheme is failing to ease the burden on gateway councils looking after lone child asylum seekers entering Britain, it is claimed. Kent County Council (KCC) said just
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The Duchess of Cornwall has vowed to continue helping victims of domestic violence during a visit to Refuge. Camilla met a number of survivors at a centre in the London
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Scammers who target the elderly should face tougher criminal sentences, a Conservative MP has demanded. Nusrat Ghani (Weldon) has called for a new criminal offence of elder-abuse to be created
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The new head of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has defended the embattled probe and insisted it will not be scaled back. Professor Alexis Jay admitted its scale
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Statins are safe and effective but their potential side-effects have been exaggerated by unreliable studies, according to a major medical review. The cholesterol-reducing tablets, the most prescribed drugs in the
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Greater effort should be made to introduce palliative care options to elderly patients who often miss out on such services, according to a new report. Those aged 70 and over
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