NSPCC calls for a national strategy to tackle child neglect – Family Law Week

New research from NSPCC reveals that most (83 per cent) professionals across healthcare, the police, children’s social care and education believe there are not enough services available to provide support for children experiencing neglect. Professionals report that the current response is ‘inadequate and slow’. The report – Too little, too late, the multi-agency response to …

‘People tend to think these battles have been won’: Next equal pay claimant on fight for recognition…

During an average shift on the shop floor at Next, Helen Scarsbrook has to remain polite and keep smiling while she makes split-second judgments about which customers need help and which need to be tactfully discouraged from shoplifting and ushered out of the store. She and her mostly female colleagues are on their feet for …