Despite people around the world boasting higher life expectancies than generations before them, new data that distinguish ...

The number of years British people enjoy good health has fallen by over two years in a decade, with more suffering from ...

Letters: Poverty is far more pressing for many people, writes Lynsey Hanley. Plus letters from Martin Pitt and Michael Bulley ...

BIRMINGHAM and Bradford have emerged as Britain’s family benefit capitals after the Government scrapped the two-child limit, ...

Deep in Mexico's Maya jungle, brilliant white lights blaze improbably in the wilderness: a maintenance depot for a flagship ...

The Serious Fraud Office announced a new investigation into three companies delivering government energy efficiency contracts ...

At least two children die from knife wounds every month in England, a national study has found. First-of-its-kind analysis ...

Midlands towns and cities have been named among England's least healthy in a new study examining chronic illness rates. Stoke-on-Trent ranked second nationally for poor health, only behind Blackpool.

The founder of Hartlepool Baby Bank has called on the Government to do more to help tackle child poverty as demand on its ...

Bishop of Salford John Arnold is backing a campaign to provide free school meals for all primary school children in England.

A HIDDEN population of children living in temporary accommodation has been found in a damning official report today, with ...

In today’s newsletter: More than one-fifth of ‘austerity-generation’ British children live in poverty. Our social policy editor talks about the damage done and the way forward The austerity years cast ...