Well-known chef Tom Kerridge is among campaigners calling on the Government to do more to tackle food insecurity as part of its upcoming child poverty strategy. A scheme to help families with young ...

Parents’ poor mental health has become the most common factor in children’s social care assessments in England, according to a report which saw it cited more often than domestic abuse for the first ...

The scandal-hit project to bring in the Emergency Services Network (ESN), first launched in 2015, was supposed to have replaced the ageing Airwave system for police, fire and ambulance services in ...

Cyber security has been named as the leading concern among IT leaders, ahead of artificial intelligence, in a poll of the computing sector’s professional body. The annual survey of tech professionals ...

Experts urge investors to prepare for a hotter world as US firms increasingly turn away from environmental, social and governance initiatives.

The wealthier people are, the more likely they are to have access to places that keep them healthy, the Royal Society for Public Health said.

It found 78% believed the UK was not prepared to deal with climate change impacts including extreme weather, and a quarter of those quizzed (26%) thought the UK was not prepared “at all” to deal with ...

Deaths from liver cancer in the UK are almost twice as high as they were two decades ago, according to new analysis. Cancer Research UK estimates the disease has killed more than 81,000 people in the ...

A lost generation of children could leave school without receiving the help they need if action is not taken to address England’s “inequitable” special educational needs system, MPs have said. The ...

Commenting on the commission, Dr Kath McCullough, special adviser on obesity at the Royal College of Physicians, said: “For too long, we’ve relied on BMI as a simple measure of obesity, which has ...