Exclusive: Legal loophole means there is no restriction on making sperm or eggs available for additional fertility treatments abroad‘You feel a bit mass-produced’: donor-conceived people on the export of UK...
Read MorePaula Jackson set up Brief Lives – Remembered to give bereaved families a chance to grieve properlyA woman who has helped find the final resting places of nearly 3,500 stillborn babies has said barriers remain to bereaved...
Read More‘Heavy-handed’ crackdown ignores underlying reasons for failure to attend classes, say criticsSome schools in England are sending police to the homes of children who are persistently absent, or warning them their...
Read MoreCharity says lone-parent households are bearing brunt of housing crisis and that private renting is brokenMore than 70,000 lone-parent households are facing eviction this winter amid warnings that they are “bearing the...
Read MoreLeading doctors and charities urge children’s health minister to take action to support struggling familiesFailure to tackle the cost of soaring infant formula is creating a crisis of infant hunger and putting the health...
Read MoreExclusive: Thousands of families with one British partner and one from abroad will be hit by £38,700 salary requirement‘We sacrificed so much to be here’: couples’ lives in disarray after new UK visa...
Read MoreMunira Wilson told conference party would ‘turbocharge’ statuary shared parental pay and extend leaveThe Liberal Democrats have said they would double statutory shared parental pay (ShPP) and extend the amount of...
Read MoreExclusive: Increasing involvement of investment funds could leave nursery places at riskGolden goose: why private equity is eyeing up UK essential servicesEngland’s childcare sector risks becoming a “playground for...
Read MoreSurvey reveals vast majority of childcare providers won’t increase capacity because of staff, cost or space concernsRishi Sunak has been warned that high-profile plans for a huge expansion of free childcare are...
Read MoreExclusive: research reveals 350 low-paid workers a day are raising complaints about errors in benefit top-upsMore human contact is needed in the UK’s automated welfare system, ministers have been warned, as it emerged 350...
Read MoreExclusive: George Eustice criticises push to get parents back to work, saying women’s ‘natural nurturing role’ should be valuedA senior Conservative MP has said stay-at-home motherhood is being undermined by...
Read MoreSurvey also finds 32% of parents with children under four are having to cut down on essentials such as groceries as costs riseMost parents with young children would delay having another due to nursery costs that are already...
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