Police officers responsible for protecting children, the elderly and domestic abuse victims should require a licence to carry out the role, ministers will be told this week. The head of
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More than two-thirds of refuges in England and Wales will close if the Government goes ahead with planned welfare cuts, a leading charity has said. The warning comes as the
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Last week the British Medical Association announced training medics would perform a series of strikes by withdrawing labour, including emergency care, for a week each month until the end of
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The NHS must do more to help people with diabetes self-manage their condition, health leaders have said after a review concluded that the current way sufferers are cared for is
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Deaths from ovarian cancer in the UK dipped by 22% over a decade thanks to widespread use of the contraceptive pill and possibly owing to a decline in the use
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Tiny particles breathed in and taken into the brain through air pollution could be linked to diseases such as Alzheimer’s, research has found. Experts have discovered the presence of magnetic
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Poverty could be effectively eliminated for the “Brexit generation” by 2030 if the Government puts more effort into helping the poor, a think tank has said. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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Ministers have defended the care system after a former Liberal Democrat MP said council social services departments in England and Wales were “under pressure” to get children adopted. John Hemming,
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Doctors are being urged to call off further strike dates over the imposition of a controversial new contract, with some calling the decision “disappointing”. Junior doctors have announced they will
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A senior figure at a leading Roman Catholic independent school has stepped aside as police investigate allegations of historical abuse made by four former pupils. The Right Reverend Cuthbert Madden,
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