The Scottish Conservatives are calling for activity programmes in nurseries to help cut health inequality across Scotland and save the NHS money. Party leader Ruth Davidson and health spokesman Brian
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The gulf between the numbers of rich and poor children winning university places has reached record levels, figures from Ucas show. Students who received free school meals – the long-time
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Health inequalities are “deeply embedded” across Britain, a charity has said after new figures showed a wide variation in the number of years people can expect to live healthy lives.
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Around a third of children in England are falling behind in their development by the time they start primary school, government figures show. Pupils from poorer backgrounds were also far
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The “damning” findings of the review on social mobility highlight the “worrying” social divisions in modern Britain, MPs and charities have warned. Campaigners said “urgent” action was needed to put
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A leading charity has called for urgent measures to boost the “woefully low” employment levels of people with a learning disability. Mencap said public attitudes were contributing to the fact
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The National Autistic Society have launched a video to draw attention to how autistic people have been repeatedly let down by Government programmes and overlooked by employers. New research has found
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Ministers are promising to confront the “prejudices and misunderstandings” preventing people with disabilities and long-term health conditions from finding work with the publication of wide-ranging proposals to help more back
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Attempts to introduce same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland are set to be thwarted for at least another five years after the Democratic Unionists insisted they would continue to block a
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Northern Ireland’s Equality Commission needs to take a long look at itself and stop favouring the “metropolitan liberal elite definition” of equality, Stormont’s First Minister has said. Democratic Unionist leader
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