Charities expressed concern that the Chancellor has decided to freeze Universal Credit work allowances as part of a raft of welfare announcements. George Osborne said the allowance will be maintained
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Childhood stress could have biological effects that hasten ageing and lead to impulsive behaviour later in life, research suggests. Scientists found the first evidence of genetic changes associated with early-life
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The home care system is teetering on the verge of crisis with the most vulnerable people seeing a different carer every week, a root-and-branch examination has found. The review, led
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Family members of residents who died at “Britain’s worst care home” said their “confidence” in the system is yet to be restored. Relatives of the men and women who died
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Leading UK charity Leonard Cheshire Disability has revealed that 300,000 disabled people will spend this Christmas trapped in unsuitable homes in a new report published today as part of its
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Dementia sufferers lack proper care because the illness is not recognised as a terminal diagnosis, according to a report out today. The report, by Marie Curie and the Alzheimer’s Society,
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Up to 13,000 people in Britain are being held in conditions of slavery, four times the number previously thought, the Home Office has said. In what is said to be
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A judge questioned the wisdom of social workers placing a vulnerable teenage girl alone a flat and left almost unsupervised in inner city Bristol – leading to her being raped
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The inquiry into the handling of child sex abuse allegations by public bodies which has been plagued with difficulties from the outset will not have a chair in place until
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Seven Somali men who were part of an inner city sex ring involving the abuse, rape and prostitution of British girls have been jailed for more than 40 years. Victims
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