People living in poverty find it harder to access NHS services

People living in poverty find it harder to live healthy lives, harder to access NHS services, live with greater illness and die earlier than...

Child of the North report asks Government to put education at heart of tackling...

A new report out today is calling on the Government to put the country’s education infrastructure at the forefront of a national plan to...

Manchester Study finds Young people seeing GPs for mental health problems have low ongoing...

Most children and adolescents in England presenting to their GPs with psychiatric symptoms have low or declining rates of ongoing contact, according to a...

U.K. has the highest housing costs in the English-speaking world

Brits spend more on housing than their counterparts in New Zealand, Ireland, Australia and Canada – comparable countries that have similar housing crisis issues A...

People with learning disabilities are dying much sooner and from preventable causes

A report out today says that People with learning disabilities are dying much sooner and from preventable causes Around 1.3 million people in England...

Three quarters of voters said that they would support making it lawful for someone...

The vast majority of voters of every political hue, in every parliamentary constituency in England and Wales, support a change in the law on...

Tameside couple tell how they were abused by daughter

Tameside couple have told the shocking story of how were abused by their own daughter as she tried to gain control of their finances. Jack*...

Package for Val campaign launches in libraries to fight city-wide period poverty on International...

A campaign to tackle period poverty has launched across Manchester on International Women’s Day (8 March). The Package for Val initiative, has been rolled...

Study highlights ‘double burden’ of unhealthy food environment in deprived areas

The findings, published in Health & Place, highlight the double burden faced by people living in the most deprived areas, where there tend to...

Poorest will receive just 3 per cent of the Chancellor’s tax giveaway

Measures announced in this week’s spring budget will provide the richest households with an extra £930 per year more than the poorest, analysis by...