More than 90 family members of the victims of corpse abuser David Fuller will receive financial compensation under a new Government scheme. Close relatives are eligible to receive up to
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Abortion services “will be commissioned in Northern Ireland” before legislation relating to the formation of the Northern Ireland Executive passes through the Lords, Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker has told
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Up to 100,000 nursing staff will take part in their biggest ever strike next month in a long-running dispute over pay, it has been announced. Members of the Royal College
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Proposals for a domestic abuse register have received a huge amount of support following a consultation, the Scottish Conservatives have said. Pam Gosal MSP’s Domestic Abuse Register Bill would introduce
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Peers have criticised “regressive” measures set out in the autumn statement enabling local authorities to receive more social care funding by raising council tax and delaying long-awaited reforms. Chancellor Jeremy
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A Cabinet minister has insisted there are no “immediate plans” for the Army to step in to help the NHS during a potential winter of strikes, but conceded it is
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More than 4,000 European doctors have opted not to work in the NHS following the Brexit vote in 2016, research has revealed. According to analysis from the Nuffield Trust health
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Details will be set out soon on which services within the NHS will be exempt from strike action, as the health service prepares for the likely cancellation of thousands of
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Too many children have been “failed” through a lack of progress on improving social services in the last decade, a Conservative former children’s minister has told the Commons. Tim Loughton
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Funding social care through increased council tax is “highly regressive and inequitable”, a Tory former Cabinet minister has warned. Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (pictured) levelled his criticism with the lion’s
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