Female detainees will be entitled to free sanitary products when they are held at police stations. In one of the last acts of Theresa May’s premiership, from August 21 custody
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A national dementia fund should be set up, MPs have heard, as the Government said it wants to make “England the best country in the world for dementia care”. Independent
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The Government has published a consultation into proposals for tackling the causes of preventable ill health in England. The green paper – Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s –
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A former Conservative MP who was falsely accused of being a murderer and a sadistic child rapist by Carl Beech has described the investigation into the fraudster’s claims as “a
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Tory MP Charlie Elphicke has been charged with sexually assaulting two women. Elphicke, 48, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on September 6. The MP for Dover was
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Home Secretary Sajid Javid has been urged by a group of cross-party MPs and peers to sanction drug consumption rooms. Tory Crispin Blunt, Labour’s Jeff Smith and crossbench peer Baroness
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Universal Credit claimants are being “blocked” from challenging decisions they disagree with, a campaign group has claimed. The system is throwing up so many obstacles for those seeking reviews of
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A shake-up of parental leave entitlements could see fathers spend more time with their babies. A consultation on changes to the system has been launched by Theresa May in one
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A woman who has campaigned for six years to liberalise Northern Ireland’s abortion laws broke down in tears as the House of Commons supported legislation repealing a law criminalising terminations
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Claims that children are being put at risk in unregulated accommodation have prompted Children’s Minister Nadhim Zahawi to say he is considering how the sector can be improved. The minister
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