Funding promised for the social care workforce has been halved, the Government has confirmed. Millions of pounds have been removed from previously announced funding for a sector which a recent
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Suella Braverman has been warned that sexual predators do not just come from “one background” and that a focus solely on race could create new “blind spots” when tackling child
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The Home Secretary has blamed “political correctness” for authorities failing to tackle grooming gangs, as she pledged to put people working with children in England under a new legal duty
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The Government has shed more than three billion items of personal protective equipment (PPE) it bought during the pandemic, figures have shown. Data from the Department of Health and Social
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The country’s social care system is broken and “cannot be tweaked”, the Archbishop of Canterbury has told Parliament as he stressed the need for a fundamental rethink. While funding mattered,
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Proposed reforms aimed at getting more people into work have left disabled people feeling anxious and could expose them to bad practice, MPs have heard. Changes outlined by the Government
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Ministers have unveiled plans to house asylum seekers in disused military bases to accommodate their “essential living needs and nothing more” despite legal threats from local Conservatives. Robert Jenrick, the
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Police need “draconian” powers to carry out strip-searches of children, a Home Office minister said as she rejected calls to outlaw the “abhorrent” practice. Sarah Dines (pictured) was accused by
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Better-funded palliative care will never be able to eliminate unbearable suffering for everyone, the first session of a parliamentary inquiry into assisted dying has heard. The current law was described
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The current rules on MPs’ second jobs “strike the right balance”, Downing Street has said, after videos showed Kwasi Kwarteng and Matt Hancock offering to advise a fake Korean company
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