A former minister who arrived in the UK having fled from the Nazis has suggested a further 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees should be welcomed to the UK. Lord Dubs, who
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Disability benefit assessments in Scotland will be more flexible than the current system and carried out in-house by the new national social security agency, the Scottish Government has announced. Social
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Three in four cases of violence against women and girls taken on by prosecutors end in conviction, the highest rate since comparable records began, new figures for England and Wales
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The families of two schoolboys with special educational needs are seeking to legally challenge the Government over its SEND funding policy. They say the current Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
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Parents’ access to childcare will be dramatically expanded under Labour plans to subsidise extra hours, Jeremy Corbyn will say. His commitment would see parents pay no more than £4 an
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A Scottish Conservative MSP has been cleared of sexual harassment following a hearing by the party’s disciplinary committee. Miles Briggs faced accusations that he made persistent unwanted advances to a
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Disgraced Tory MP Andrew Griffiths plans to stand again in the Burton and Uttoxeter constituency. Mr Griffiths resigned as small business minister in July after he was unmasked for sending
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Life expectancy in Scotland has fallen for the first time in 35 years, official figures have revealed. Males born in the period 2015 to 2017 can expect to live until
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Teaching assistants, auxiliary nurses, police community officers and other public services support staff are putting in millions of hours of unpaid overtime, according to new research. Unison said its study
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A Conservative MSP is being investigated over sexual harassment allegations. Miles Briggs is alleged to have made persistent unwanted advances at a parliamentary social event. He denies the allegations and
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