Parents will need to provide proof that a child’s vaccination records are up to date if they are to receive their child benefit payments under plans considered by Jon Cruddas, Labour’s Policy Chief, as a way to attach conditionality to benefits and services provided by the state. However,...
Research by Dr Valerie Voon at Cambridge University claims that compulsive users of pornography have the same signs of addiction in the brain as those who are addicted to drugs or alcohol. Pornographic images stimulate the part of the brain which processes reward, motivation and pleasure in the...
A series of reports on efficiency highlight the way in which the Cabinet and the Treasury fail to ensure that suppliers pay their fair share of tax on UK profits or compensate...
Plans are ahead for prisoners who will no longer be able to smoke cigarettes in their cells. Inmates will be offered nicotine patches to cope with...
Probation staff are set to stage a walk out in protest at government plans to privatise the majority of probation work, The Guardian reports today.
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There is a now a 15 year life expectancy gap between people living in Manchester and those living in Richmond upon Thames, according to data from the Office of...
Since the bedroom tax was introduced in April this year, more than 50,000 council tennants have fallen behind on their rent and face being evicted ...
Richard Garside weighs up the evidence for the links between recessions, violence and suicide.
'Drunks causing nuisance in towns and cities will be held overnight in privately run 'drunk tanks' and charged up to £400 under police leaders' proposals' reports the ...
Wormwood Scrubs prison has been described as being on a 'knife edge' in a report from the Board of Visitors. Force or restraint measures were used 406 times to control prisoners in the first half of this year in a prison that holds 1,279 inmates - more than 450 of them foreign nationals, reports...
A spike in the suicide rates in Europe and the US has been linked to the financial crisis and austerity measures, reports the ...
The following journals and articles caught our eye this month:
