Northern cities are home to the highest numbers of vulnerable children and families but southern and coastal areas are facing “hidden” poverty, analysis shows. The cities in the North of
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New laws are needed to stop councils allowing people to slip into homelessness, Labour has insisted. The party’s shadow housing and planning secretary, John Healey, has backed calls by the
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Assaults on NHS staff have gone up 25% in the last five years, new figures show. The number of assaults increased to 67,874 in 2014-15 from 54,758 assaults in 2008-9
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Record numbers of web pages containing child sexual abuse images are being detected following a dramatic spike in reports, a watchdog has revealed. Some 68,092 URLs were identified and taken
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More domestic violence victims will be able to access legal aid after the Government relaxed the rules because they were previously declared legally flawed by the Court of Appeal. In
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A spurned lover has been jailed for 19 years for stabbing his ex-girlfriend and her 86-year-old fiance to death after trawling the internet for Breaking Bad poison, a court heard.
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Adults with autism have been held on mental health wards for months on end because suitable living arrangements could not be found for them. Statistics show that there were five
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The number of sex crimes reported to police has passed 100,000 in a year for the first time, while homicides jumped by more than a tenth, official figures have revealed.
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Patients will be urged to “self-manage” conditions online and see nurses and pharmacists as part of a major shake-up of GP surgeries. NHS England has announced a five-year plan to
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Being lonely and socially isolated can increase a person’s risk of heart disease or stroke, new research suggests. The effect loneliness has on the heart is similar to that seen
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