The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual global risk survey highlighted declining optimism around the global economic backdrop.

A train operator said it took more than 5,000 children on free trips under a scheme to help disadvantaged pupils. Avanti West Coast provided 215 excursions for 5,250 schoolchildren aged between four ...

Criminal Cases Review Commission chairwoman Helen Pitcher quit on Tuesday, claiming she had been made a ‘scapegoat’ in the case.

The group said last month it was facing an extra £32 million in wage costs from Budget measures and that price rises would be ‘inevitable’.

Parents’ poor mental health has become the most common factor in children’s social care assessments in England, according to a report which saw it cited more often than domestic abuse for the first ...