MPs have warned of a “long road ahead” to improve the children’s social care sector amid rising need and a “severe” shortage of appropriate placements for young people. The Education Committee noted a ...

Pine martens reintroduced to Dartmoor have produced their first young, with camera-trap footage capturing shots of kits scampering through woodland. Conservationists behind the project to return pine ...

Al Carns, the veterans minister, promised to increase the number of staff processing applications by five, effectively doubling the size of the team.