Vaccine refusal is a “growing public health timebomb”, the head of the NHS has warned. More than half a million children in the UK were not vaccinated against measles over
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A record near-1.6 million emergency supplies have been handed out by food banks in the past year, with a third going to children, figures reveal. The Trussell Trust said the
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Ministers came under pressure to increase social care funding, as both Tory and Labour MPs demanded a cash boost. Conservative former cabinet minister Sir John Redwood said it is “obvious”
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Police have released CCTV images after a teenage girl was a victim of upskirting at a rail station. British Transport Police (BTP) said a man tried to take pictures under
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Children from poorer backgrounds are twice as likely to be out of work because of a “youth jobs gap” between rich and poor, a new study suggests. Research by charity
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Record amounts of child sexual abuse imagery were found online and removed last year thanks to improving technology in the field of detecting and assessing such images, according to a
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More men are being encouraged to work in nurseries as a charity aims to challenge stereotypes over the male role in early education. Men currently make up just 3% of
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Some 1.9 million adults will be at least £1,000 per year worse off under Universal Credit – while 1.6 million will gain more than this amount – analysis has found.
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A Government minister who vowed to resign if the levels of violence in 10 key prisons did not decline has revealed that “at the moment the figures are looking reasonably
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A record 2.2 million people were checked for cancer by the NHS in England last year, with the health service crediting increased awareness to celebrities such as Stephen Fry. The
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