Steps to ensure harassment victims can have malicious complaints made against them scratched from the record have been promised by the Government in the face of a Tory-led rebellion. The
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Thousands of asylum seekers earmarked by the Home Office for deportation to Rwanda have lost contact with the department, a Government document suggests. Out of 5,700 people identified for removal,
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The number of foreign care workers applying for a visa to come to the UK fell by a quarter in six months. Health and care visa applications covering 153,500 people
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Changing the law to legalise assisted dying could see people killed because they are old, an at-times emotional parliamentary debate has heard, while others rejected a picture painted of a
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A police constable who punched a medical worker after mistaking him for a suspect has been spared jail. Metropolitan Police officer Jonathan Marsh, 34, was called to a medical clinic
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A watchdog has criticised “unacceptable” conditions at the busiest airport immigration detention centre in England and Wales. Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor said the facility in Luton was “unable
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Almost two-thirds of UK adults are worried about access to palliative and end-of-life care, according to a survey. The results, released on the same day a debate on assisted dying
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The Work and Pensions Secretary has refused to set out which health conditions will no longer result in access to sickness benefits, as part of the Government’s major welfare reforms.
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The Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales has branded changes to the way police forces log crimes a “serious mistake”. Nicole Jacobs (pictured) accused the Government of choosing “administrative
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Patients are staying in hospital longer due to physiotherapy facilities that were repurposed during the Covid-19 pandemic not being returned to use, an inquiry has heard. Claire Ronald (pictured), a
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