Priti Patel is under renewed pressure from Labour to quit as Home Secretary over allegations that she bullied officials in her department. Diane Abbott insisted Ms Patel should stand down
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More than 4,000 nursery staff need to be recruited to allow for the increase in free early learning and childcare (ELC) hours later this year, Audit Scotland has said. Reviewing
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Widespread transmission of coronavirus in the UK is “highly likely”, Public Health England (PHE) has warned, as the Prime Minister gathers ministers for an emergency Cobra meeting. Professor Paul Cosford,
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A decision to destroy Government reviews into cases where benefit claimants killed themselves has been branded “secretive and unsatisfactory” by a senior MP. Stephen Timms, chairman of the Commons work
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A £236 million initiative aimed at helping get rough sleepers off the streets has been unveiled by the Prime Minister. As part of the move, Boris Johnson said that former
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Boris Johnson has come under increasing pressure from Tory MPs to deliver long-promised social care reforms. Conservative former health minister Jackie Doyle-Price said it was “high time that we really
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The NHS will “pay the price” if it does not embrace at-home rehabilitation, a former health minister has warned. Community rehabilitation provides tailored support for patients outside hospital to allow
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David Steel has quit the Liberal Democrats and announced his retirement from the House of Lords in the wake of a new report into historical child sexual abuse. The former
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This investigation concerns institutional responses to allegations of child sexual abuse and exploitation involving persons of public prominence who were associated with Westminster. Westminster is defined in this report as
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The political establishment spent decades turning “a blind eye” to allegations of child sexual abuse, with high-profile politicians protected from police action as whips sought to avoid “gossip and scandal”
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