New job-seeking requirements placed on parents of young children under Universal Credit risk pushing single-parent families into poverty, a report warns. A study by campaign group Gingerbread suggested that 165,000
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Social care providers including children’s homes have been given up to a year to identify what they owe workers who were incorrectly paid below the minimum wage for sleep-in shifts.
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The number of health regulators in the UK could be slashed under plans to replace a “confusing, inconsistent and slow” system. The nine regulators currently covering healthcare workers including doctors,
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Specialist “drying out” centres could be created to hold people who are detained while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, a major review suggests. Ministers were urged to look
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Millions of people are facing “unacceptable delays and difficulty” accessing care, health leaders have warned as they called on Chancellor Philip Hammond to address the situation in next month’s Budget.
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Children’s services are in crisis across much of England due to government funding cuts, Labour has said. Shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne (pictured) said there was a “growing emergency in
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The Government would recoup nearly half the cost of lifting the NHS pay cap though higher tax receipts and lower welfare payments, a think tank has said. The cost of
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About 30,000 disabled people in Scotland could lose entitlement to disability benefits as a result of UK Government welfare reforms, according to a new report. The Scottish Government research looked
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Nicola Sturgeon has proposed a cross-party review of parliamentary procedures amid allegations of sexual misconduct at Holyrood. Scotland’s First Minister has written to presiding officer Ken Macintosh to suggest ways
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Victims of historical child abuse have urged Northern Ireland’s politicians to release compensation which has been blocked due to Stormont’s collapse, as talks aimed at restoring powersharing enter their final
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