Charities have warned of a “housing crisis” after new figures showed that 56,500 households were accepted as homeless in England in 2015 – a rise of one-third since David Cameron’s
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Tens of thousands of care workers are being paid less than the minimum wage because their employers do not count travel time in between appointments, a union has claimed. Unison
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Professionals are still concerned about tackling so-called honour-based violence because of “cultural sensitivities”, a Home Office Minister has admitted. Karen Bradley said “certain professionals” still do not have the confidence
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Some children are being left unprotected and at risk of serious harm because of ‘unacceptable inconsistencies’ in police investigations into missing children. The Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) report
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Alzheimer’s disease has a worse effect on women than men, researchers have said. Women with Alzheimer’s have poorer cognitive abilities than men at the same stage of the disease, the
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The Government has ruled out converting National Insurance contributions into a special tax to fund health and social care. Treasury spokesman Lord Ashton of Hyde said the Government had no
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Two former teachers at a boarding school have been charged with historic sex offences against pupils. The offences concern the alleged abuse of children at Ashdown House School, near Forest
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A former social worker who used his position at a “brutal” children’s care home to carry out a string of sex attacks in the early 1980s has been jailed for
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New Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb has said there will be no further raid on welfare spending to fund the £4 billion black hole in the Budget left by
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More needs to be done to provide support for rowing parents, experts have said after a review concluded that conflicting couples could be putting their children at risk. Couples who
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