Activities for poorer children during the school holidays are to receive a multimillion-pound funding boost. Thousands more disadvantaged children are set to benefit under the £9 million programme announced by
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The Government is drawing up plans to stop food shortages from affecting hospital patients in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to official documents. Doctors and nurses should also
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Labour has blamed the sharp rise in deaths of homeless people on the “results of Government decisions, Government choices” after figures showed almost 600 died last year. After the death
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Over a third of health boards in Scotland need intervention after dropping below expected standards, MSPs have been told. In a letter to the health committee at Holyrood, NHS Scotland
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The Government has admitted that more than 4,500 disabled people were wrongly stripped of benefits despite having “good reasons” for missing assessments. Work and pensions minister Sarah Newton revealed they
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Universal Credit could have potentially “disastrous” consequences for disabled people, a cross-party group of MPs has warned. The Commons Work and Pensions Committee called on the Government to take urgent
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Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes has lifted the barrier for 260 child refugees to come to the UK. Ms Nokes made the announcement that she was removing the cut-off date criterion
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Scotland will recruit an extra 80 mental health professionals to work with children and young people with a £4 million investment. Psychologists, nurses, allied health professionals and administration workers are
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Achieving parity of access to treatments for mental health patients compared with that for people with physical conditions will be the work of a generation, the Health Secretary has warned.
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Health officials lack a clear post Brexit recruitment plan which could exacerbate current medical staff shortages, MPs have said in a report that also warns that the NHS faces regional
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