Chaos says charity as just one in ten parents get access to new Government...

Only 55% of parents have found a childcare setting that will accept the new ‘free’ hours for 2-year-olds according to the charity Pregnant Then...

Turning around struggling High Streets too big a job for local authorities on their...

The fortunes of struggling High Streets can not be turned around by local authorities on their own as the job is too big –...

One million people in England living shorter lives than they should

A new report from the UCL Institute of Health Equity (IHE) has confirmed that a million people in 90% of areas in England lived...

It will take a decade for public services such as NHS and the Justice...

Public services won’t return to acceptable levels of quality until the 2030s and while funding is needed wholesale reform is critical to improving services...

Mcr’s oldest homeless charity expecting unprecedented numbers to hit 3,000 at its Christmas drop...

Manchester’s oldest homelessness charity,Lifeshare, is expecting unprecedented numbers to its Christmas Project.  From December 23 – 29, the charity will throw open its doors on...

Violent Night: iconic Christmas carol rewritten to highlight violence against homeless people

The UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, Centrepoint, has rewritten the lyrics to ‘Silent Night’ as a poignant reminder that street violence towards homeless people...

Hundreds of young people urgently needing a mental health bed are being admitted far...

Young people needing beds urgently for their mental health needs are waiting for long periods on acute general hospital wards, before being placed on...

The Decline in smoking in England has stalled since pandemic study finds

A decades-long decline in smoking prevalence in England has nearly ground to a halt since the start of the pandemic, according to a new...

At least 309,000 people homeless in England today say Shelter

New research from Shelter shows at least 309,000 people in England will spend Christmas without a home, including almost 140,000 children. This is a...

Levelling up? No we are levelling Down with the North hardest hit says report

A new report out says that when it comes to regional inequality, we’re moving backwards. And it’s families in the north of England who...