The UK will provide £50 million of aid funding to tackle the brutal practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) across Africa. The package will help support a movement to end
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Health teams working in the community are to get a multi-billion funding boost in a bid to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, the Prime Minister has announced. Theresa May pledged £3.5
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Fresh concerns about the roll-out of controversial Universal Credit (UC) welfare reforms have been voiced by MPs. The Commons Work and Pensions Committee said readiness tests must be set before
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Addressing childhood adversity and trauma should be a national public health priority, Labour has said. Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said action was needed because around half of adults in
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Increasing the number of hours of free early learning and child care provision will be “absolutely transformative”, Maree Todd has said. Under Scottish Government plans, by August 2020 every three
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More than two-fifths of the accommodation for asylum seekers in England and Wales is not fit for purpose, a report has found. The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
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Universal Credit waiting times have “plunged people into misery and despair”, according to a United Nations envoy. Professor Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
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Amber Rudd made a dramatic return to Theresa May’s Cabinet as the Prime Minister sought to bolster her position following the backlash to her Brexit deal. Meanwhile, Leave-supporting Stephen Barclay
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A licensing scheme should be launched for hand car washes to stop workers being exploited, MPs are urging. Thousands of cheap hand car washes have sprung up in the past
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All bodies involved in the integration of health and social care services need to work together better if it is to make a “meaningful difference” to people in Scotland, according
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