Mencap says the rise will cost it £5.3m every year. The government also announced an increase to the national minimum wage ...

One organisation providing social care services anticipates extra costs of up to £500,000.

Yvette Cooper, in her first major speech at the annual conference of the National Police Chiefs' Council and Association of ...

“Our services have already been cut down to the bone,” he told The Independent. “There is already a very minimal standard of support available, and this national insurance increase will only ...