Former head of the independent child sexual abuse inquiry Dame Lowell Goddard resigned “because she found it too much for her”, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has suggested. A Commons committee
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Keith Vaz has quit as head of one of the most influential House of Commons committees after becoming embroiled in a rent boy scandal. The high profile MP said “those
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Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled a package of legislation aimed at boosting Scotland’s economy in the wake of the Brexit vote, but has also pledged the “immediate introduction” of legislation for
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The levels of homelessness in Scotland are a “national badge of shame”, according to a housing charity. Shelter accused local and national government of taking “their eye off the ball
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A targeted campaign to trace people at risk of hepatitis C infection from a contaminated blood scandal is being carried out. The awareness drive is one of three recommendations made
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Victims of crime face a postcode lottery over the availability of “restorative” justice schemes that bring them into contact with offenders, a Commons report has found. While some variation is
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Urgent action is needed to give pregnant women and new mothers more protection at work, after research revealed a “shocking” increase in discrimination over the past 10 years, a parliamentary
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Help provided by the Government to families in need will be worse in 2020 than it was in 2010 and will slip even further unless action is taken to overhaul
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A new tax is urgently needed to fund the NHS and social care system, according to a Tory doctor and former health minister. Dan Poulter said his experience working in
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A government auction of radio frequencies could render thousands of hearing aids and implants useless, a charity has claimed. The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) said the auction to mobile
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