People who carry out the most violent domestic abuse are to be challenged about their behaviour on a one-to-one basis for the first time. A new scheme, known as Drive,
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A potentially revolutionary therapy that trains the immune system to attack cancer has shown “extraordinary” results in early trials involving terminally ill patients. In one study 94% of participants with
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Workers at the charity Action For Children have voted in favour of strikes in a row over pay. Members of Unite backed walkouts by 77%, and other forms of industrial
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Clues that prisoners may take their own lives are too often missed, a watchdog has warned. Known factors indicating a heightened risk – such as a history of suicidal behaviour
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One million more people a year with mental health problems will receive treatment in England by 2021, the NHS has pledged. The move comes after a new report found only
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Prison suicides are costing the taxpayer up to £300 million a year, according to estimates by a penal reform charity. Growing inmate numbers, overcrowding and staff cuts have fuelled a
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Two retired social workers responsible for a sadistic “regime of terror” at a children’s home during the 1980s have been handed lengthy jail terms. Alan Todd – who sexually abused
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A total of 86 courthouses across England and Wales are to be closed as part of a £700 million revamp to modernise the justice system. Justice minister Shailesh Vara said
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Nearly a third of female rape victims are girls aged under 16, new figures indicate. The findings emerged as the first detailed breakdown of the age and gender of victims
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Several NHS chief executives who apparently put their names to a key letter used by Jeremy Hunt to justify imposing new contracts on junior doctors have withdrawn their support for
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