Young Carers

Public inquiry begins into horrific Southport murders

The public inquiry into the murders of three young girls in Southport last summer will begin later on.

Near Dickensian poverty levels for some children in England

Some young people in England are living in an “almost-Dickensian level of poverty”, the Children’s Commissioner said as she insisted the two-child benefit limit must be scrapped.

Overwhelming levels of drugs destabilising prisons watchdog warns

Criminal gangs are using drones to drop packages of up to 10 kilograms of drugs into prisons where the overwhelming amount of drugs is destabilising jails, a watchdog chief has warned.

Victims of July 7 attacks remembered 20 years on with service at St Pauls

The Prime Minister and Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh were among those who gathered to mark the 20th anniversary of the July 7 London bombings at St Paul’s Cathedral.

Society struggling to respond to link between smartphones and youth extremism

Society is “grasping at straws” in how to deal with more young people being drawn into extremism due to the availability of smartphones, the terror laws watchdog has said.

July 7 attacks were watershed moment for head of Mets counter terrorism squad

The July 7 2005 attacks were a watershed moment for the now-head of the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism squad, who drove to London to help in the aftermath of the atrocities and remained in the capital for the next two decades.