The UK Government has announced its funding package for the newly re-established Northern Ireland Executive. In a statement on Wednesday evening the Government revealed an extra £1 billion on top
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There is a crisis of social care in Scotland and politicians need to make it a serious priority, writes Alex Cole-Hamilton. It’s the 21st century, we live in the capital
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Care experienced students taking part in a new service to improve their outcomes met with Scotland’s first minister this week. The students from Glasgow’s three colleges and West College Scotland
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Rape survivors could receive extra help in the Budget, a justice minister has suggested. Chris Philp told MPs he hopes “there is more we can do” in forthcoming spending decisions
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Nurses will receive a pay rise in a “breakthrough” bid to end strike action which has paralysed the health service in Northern Ireland, the new Health Minister said. Robin Swann
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Boris Johnson has vowed to produce a plan for solving the social care crisis within the next 12 months. The Conservative Party’s manifesto had promised only “cross-party” talks on how
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Stormont’s new health minister is to meet trade unions involved in ongoing strike action as other parties face questions as to why they avoided the portfolio. Ulster Unionist minister Robin
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A Cabinet Office investigation into former Welsh secretary Alun Cairns’ knowledge of a collapsed rape trial has been branded a “sham” by the female victim. The MP for the Vale
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MPs have voted down proposals to enshrine protections for child refugees as part of the Government’s Brexit agreement. Following his election victory, Boris Johnson re-drafted his European Union (Withdrawal Agreement)
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Conservative MPs are being urged to “take a moral stance” and support an amendment demanding the Government continues to negotiate to take in lone child refugees from Europe after Brexit.
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