Under 10s groomed online ‘like never before’ as hotline discovers record amount of child...
A “shocking” number of under 10s are being manipulated into performing sexual acts online, as experts discover more child sexual abuse imagery online than...
Teens who up screen time raise mental health risks
Teenagers whose screen time increases as they go through adolescence raise the risk of mental health problems later on, research suggests
Young people who spent...
Bin Blue Monday say the Samaritans
The myth that today is the most ‘depressing day of the year’ seems to pop up every year and say the Samaritans, we have ...
Overdose Prevention Centres have key role in tackling UK drug-deaths crisis, says new research
Drug overdose prevention centres (OPCs) could prevent thousands of deaths, reduce the spread of serious disease, improve communities, save taxpayer money and with no...
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...