Analysis of hundreds of studies suggests 27% of women aged 15-49 have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence.

Some of the biggest challenges facing people at the moment are rising bills, according to Saint Cecilia’s director Aaron Padgham.

Social care providers will be able to recruit overseas workers to fill vacancies under relaxed immigration rules that came into force on Tuesday.

A total of 1,242 deaths registered in the week ending February 4 mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, the Office for National Statistics said.

Youth services in England are spending less than a quarter of what they were spending a decade ago per child, YMCA analysis shows.

A third of older people feel more anxious compared with before the coronavirus pandemic, Age UK suggests.

Dame Rachel de Souza’s report found striking regional disparities in access to treatment, waiting times and how much services are spending per child.

The NSPCC warns that proposed changes to NHS structures could destabilise safeguarding partnerships that ‘already need urgent improvement’.

The Government has been clear that, while it intends to revoke the policy, all health and social care staff have a ‘professional duty’ to get jabbed.

Minister Therese Coffey also suggested energy suppliers have started using billpayers as their ‘cash flow’.

The Government launched a consultation on extending the mandate to more staff in September, but this week said it plans to scrap the requirement.

The updated figure is almost four times as high as the total given to the Home Affairs Committee earlier this week.

Home Secretary Priti Patel said there was a challenge in finding homes for thousands of refugees.

Disabled people were more likely to report worse mental health, anxiety, depression and loneliness, the ONS found.

The Home Secretary said spiking is a new and ‘appalling’ trend.

The £560 million will give young people more opportunities to volunteer, take part in thousands more activities and embark on trips away from home.

There were 103,592 divorces granted in England and Wales in 2020, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Care homes have been the ‘unwitting guinea pigs’ of the initial policy, the National Care Forum said.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid said he believes it is ‘no longer proportionate’ to require vaccination as a condition of deployment under law.