Border security at UK airports is neither “effective nor efficient”, the immigration watchdog warned as he described a Home Office “culture of defensiveness” in a series of reports produced before
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The number of people sleeping rough in England rose by 27% in a year, with charities branding the statistics a “source of national shame”. There were 3,898 rough sleepers on
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Labour MP Jess Phillips has read out a list of names of women killed by men in the last year, the ninth year she has carried out what she called
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Staff working with children and vulnerable adults in asylum accommodation in Northern Ireland have not undergone checks or training, a report has found. An inspection of contingency asylum accommodation for
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Dame Esther Rantzen has made a fresh call for a debate and vote on legalising assisted dying as a report warned that the Government must consider what to do if
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Elderly residents living in care homes in Wales during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic were put at risk by the Welsh Government’s “inadequate” response to the threat posed
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Employers should ensure they have appropriate premises, furnishings, equipment and IT systems to help more autistic people in work, the Government has said. Sir Robert Buckland, who led a review
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Councils have warned frontline neighbourhood services will still have to be cut despite the Government recently providing emergency funding, as doubts over the viability of local authorities continue. If further
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A grieving woman who lost her mother during the Covid-19 pandemic has accused the Welsh Government of being “caught with their trousers down” when the virus hit Wales. Elizabeth Grant
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The Tory Government at Westminster is “hell-bent on returning to a new age of austerity”, Scotland’s Finance Secretary has warned. Shona Robison, who is also the Scottish Deputy First Minister,
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