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Social care can “ill afford” to wait three years for final decisions on reform, leaders in the sector said, as a new report highlighted the ongoing strain faced by providers. An annual survey of organisations caring for some 128,000 people in England found providers feeling forced to close parts of their organisations, handing back contracts to local authorities and considering leaving the market entirely. Workforce pressures were cited as the […]

Warm weather is set to sweep parts of the UK next week despite a fog warning in the west on Monday. The Met Office has issued a yellow warning that fog could disrupt traffic during the morning rush-hour in the west and North West of England, and in Wales. Forecasters said it could be the first widespread fog of the autumn that develops overnight and lasts until morning. The warning […]

The UK economy flatlined in July for the second month in a row, according to the latest official figures, as the Chancellor said she was “under no illusion about the scale of the challenge” the country faces. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said gross domestic product (GDP) recorded no growth in July. Economists had been expecting GDP to edge up by 0.1% in the month, according to a consensus […]

The King reaches the second anniversary of his accession to the throne and the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday, with his health heading in a very positive trajectory, a royal source has said..

The inquiry has found they failed to properly consider the danger of combustible materials in high-rise residential buildings The devastating Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people was the result of “decades of failure” by government and the construction industry to act on the dangers of flammable materials on high-rise buildings, a long-awaited report has found. The west London tower block was covered in combustible products because of the “systematic dishonesty” of firms who made […]

More than 700 migrants crossed the Channel on the day two people died attempting the journey – the highest number of daily crossings since Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister. The Home Office recorded 703 people arriving in the UK on Sunday in 11 boats, suggesting an average of 64 people per boat. It came as two people died in French waters while trying to cross the Channel, with others […]

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said respect for the police must be restored after they faced “brazen abuse and contempt” during rioting. Attacks on local communities and police are a “disgraceful assault on the rule of law itself,” she said. “As home secretary, I am not prepared to tolerate the brazen abuse and contempt which a minority have felt able to show towards our men and women in uniform, or […]