A housing minster has promised to resign if the problem of rough sleeping gets worse on her watch. Heather Wheeler insisted there would be improvements after the plight of England’s
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Aid charities will on Monday be told to take action to restore trust and improve standards following the sex scandal which engulfed the sector. Ahead of a London summit, International
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Ministers have ruled out imposing measures that could have resulted in school secretaries, caterers and caretakers facing jail if they failed to raise the alarm about child abuse. In 2016
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Chancellor Philip Hammond must use his Spring Statement to help struggling councils which are acting as “human shields” for the Government’s “failed economic policy of austerity”, John McDonnell will say.
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A fifth of staff working at the Scottish Parliament have experienced sexual harassment or sexist behaviour, a survey has found. A confidential survey of more than 1,000 employees last year,
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MPs should face having their pay docked if they fail to complete new training developed after the Westminster abuse and bullying scandal, the Commons has heard. Green Party co-leader Caroline
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Former child migrants who were exposed to sexual violence and other threats during a “fundamentally flawed” overseas settlement policy should be offered financial compensation by the Government, a report has
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Campaigners have submitted a dossier to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, detailing allegations from dozens of women who claim to have suffered sexual harassment, abuse or intimidation within the party. The
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A “small army of people” are leaving prison without any form of employment or accommodation, a former minister has warned. The latest Government figures reveal that almost a third of
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Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has appealed to Philip Hammond to address the “£2 billion funding gap” in children’s services to “protect our children”. Mr McDonnell said the “most vulnerable” were
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