NHS boards imposing minimum two-year waits for ADHD and autism assessments aren’t responding to falling need. They’re rationing care by making people wait. Nearly 1 million people in England are now on waiting lists for an ADHD assessment. The average…
Food banks across north of Ireland are cutting the size of emergency parcels, reducing their opening hours and warning that they could close altogether as donations fail to keep pace with demand. Enniskillen Foodbank in County Fermanagh has enough money…
The British government has warned foreign ministers that climate breakdown and collapsing ecosystems threaten food supplies, water, migration and international stability. Yet the intelligence report behind the warning remains hidden from the British public. Foreign secretary Ed Miliband presented the…
Bread deliveries across the West of England are set to be disrupted as Hovis lorry drivers prepare to strike indefinitely over pay. Around 60 Unite members at the company’s Avonmouth depot near Bristol will walk out from 24 September after…
The film industry likes to present itself as a ruthless meritocracy in which money talks and success is rewarded. A study covering almost 200,000 films tells a different story. Even when films written by women make more money, the largest…
The pressures of poverty, insecurity and psychological distress may be physically reshaping people’s hearts years before they develop any symptoms, according to a major new study. Researchers led by the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences and Imperial College London analysed…
Around 20,000 disclosures of domestic abuse are made to maternity services in England each year, according to an analysis which exposes both the scale of the violence taking place behind closed doors and the pressure placed on NHS workers expected…
More than 1.1 million low-income families in privately rented homes face a growing struggle to cover their rent after Local Housing Allowance was frozen while market rents continued to rise. The Resolution Foundation has warned that without action from John…
A cross-party group of peers has called for almost all gambling advertising in the UK to be banned, provoking an angry response from the lobby representing bookmakers and casinos. The House of Lords liaison committee said the government had been…
At least five Reform UK councillors have been members of a Facebook group promoting the far-right Patriot Platform, according to anti-fascist campaigners. The councillors — two from Solihull, two from Gateshead and one from Kent — belonged to the closed…
