Police should clamp down on rioters using powers they have to ban football hooligans, the Prime Minister said as he launched a violent disorder plan. Sir Keir Starmer said he
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The Government’s decision not to go ahead with a fund dedicated to training the social care workforce is “desperately shortsighted”, according to a leading health charity. In a written statement
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Public sector workers are in line for a pay rise but 10 million pensioners will lose out on winter fuel payments in an attempt to fill a £22 billion black
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England’s health and social care watchdog is “not fit for purpose” and needs “radical reform”, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said as he pledged immediate action to restore public confidence.
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The Government must urgently reform a failing system of support for children with special educational needs as spiralling costs have not led to better outcomes for pupils, councils have warned.
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Children are being failed in “dual crises of poverty and mental health”, according to charities which have ramped up calls for the Government to scrap the two-child benefit limit. The
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Sir Keir Starmer vowed to tackle child poverty “with the same vigour” as the last Labour government when challenged over his refusal to immediately axe the two-child benefit cap. His
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The Government will end the use of the Bibby Stockholm barge for housing migrants off England’s south coast as part of an overhaul of the asylum system, the Home Office
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The seven Labour MPs who defied the Government by backing an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap have lost the whip. Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain,
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England has nearly 1,500 fewer care homes than in 2018, the Liberal Democrats claimed as they tabled a King’s Speech amendment calling for free personal care across the country. Some
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