11 h. ago You could be entitled to DWP benefit worth £83 a week if you look after someone

The DWP has a payment available to people who look after a family member or friend for at least 35 hours a week, and it's worth thousands of pounds a year

Economics

13 h. ago Bereavement leave to be rolled out to parents who experience pregnancy loss before 24 weeks

Changes to the Employment Rights Bill will ensure time off for those affected by loss

Politics

17 h. ago People to be entitled to time off work if they lose baby before 24 weeks

New rules will guarantee time off work to grieve if a pregnant woman loses a baby - no matter how early

Politics

24 h. ago Parents who experience pregnancy loss before 24 weeks now entitled to leave

Changes to the Employment Rights Bill will ensure time off for those affected by loss

Politics

24 h. ago Parents who experience pregnancy loss before 24 weeks entitled to leave

Changes to the Employment Rights Bill will ensure time off for those affected by loss

Politics

24 h. ago Parents who lose pregnancy before 24 weeks to be entitled to bereavement leave

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the change would give ‘people time away from work to grieve’.

Politics

30 h. ago Parents in Britain to be granted bereavement leave after miscarriage

Mothers and partners will gain the legal right if they lose a baby before 24 weeks, in Labour workers’ rights reformParents in Britain will be granted a right to bereavement leave after suffering a miscarriage as part of Labour’s workers’ rights reforms, it has been confirmed.In a change to the law made via amendments to the employment rights bill, mothers and their partners will be given the legal right to at least one week’s bereavement leave if they have suffered a pregnancy loss before 24 weeks’ gestation. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Laura Anderson opens up on her parenting struggle with daughter Bonnie

Radio and TV personality Laura Anderson has opened up to her social media followers admitting she is 'struggling' as she experiences the 'hardest' week of parenting so far.

Politics

1 week ago Test developed to identify women at increased risk of miscarriage

Study discovered abnormal process in womb lining, with potential for new treatments to prevent pregnancy lossScientists have developed a test to identify women with an increased risk of miscarriage, which could pave the way for new treatments to prevent pregnancy loss.About one in six of all pregnancies are lost, most before 12 weeks, and each miscarriage increases the risk of another one happening. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago New womb lining test can help women who have miscarriages, UK scientists say

Findings set to pave way for new treatments for some women who experience recurrent pregnancy loss

Politics

1 week ago Families in West Lothian invited to attend free whole family art sessions

These sessions are open to families with a lone parent and/or ethnic minority parent who is experiencing unemployment or underemployment.

Politics

2 w. ago The Guardian view on maternity care failings: Wes Streeting’s new inquiry must learn from past mistakes, not repeat them | Editorial

The health secretary deserves praise for trying something new. But links between poor care and overstretched staff must not be avoidedThe announcement of a new inquiry into maternity care failures in England, including the shockingly higher risk of mortality faced by black and Asian mothers, indicates an overdue recognition that improvements are needed. From the devastating 2015 review of a decade of failure at Morecambe Bay, to last year’s birth trauma report from MPs, there is no shortage of evidence that women face unacceptable risks when giving birth on the NHS. The question is whether a review chaired by Wes Streeting himself can achieve what previous ones have not.His role as chair is not the only novel aspect of this inquiry. A panel including bereaved parents will share their experiences and knowledge, alongside expert evidence. This format should focus minds on the human consequences of systemic failures, including mother and baby deaths, and on the need for accountabi...

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2 w. ago Warm Home Discount explained as 2.7million households set for £150 energy help

In new plans confirmed this week, an extra 2.7 million households will be entitled to the Warm Home Discount this winter - this would increase the number of eligible people to over six million

Economics

2 w. ago Warning over popular chicken fettuccine Alfredo meal linked to deadly listeria outbreak

An outbreak has claimed three lives and resulted in one pregnancy loss

Events

3 w. ago Weight loss jabs could impact your contraception. Here’s why

Simon Cork on the surprising side effect of weight loss jabs - unintended pregnancy

Politics

3 w. ago 'I offer perfect girlfriend experience for rich blokes but my parents call me names'

JUST JANE: Today our agony aunt Jane O'Gorman is dealing with a new issue from a Daily Star reader who is at odds with her family

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3 w. ago List of freebies and discounts carers can claim all year around

This week is Carers Week - here is a list of discounts and deals carers are entitled to all year round

Politics

4 w. ago The Guardian view on child poverty: free school meals are a help, but not a panacea | Editorial

Giving lunch to more pupils is a good move – but poor nutrition points to deeper problems that ministers must faceIt was Ellen Wilkinson, education minister in the Attlee government, who announced in 1946 that free school dinners would be introduced, along with free school milk, at the same time as child benefit. No doubt Rachel Reeves, who has a picture of Wilkinson on the wall of her office, is aware of this – and also that the Treasury subsequently decided the policy was unaffordable. The meals were subsidised instead.Despite these initial charges, and later price rises, poorer children did gain, and keep, an entitlement to free school meals. The announcement last week that this is being extended in England to all those whose parents or carers claim universal credit – rather than restricted to families with incomes lower than £7,400 – should be welcomed by all objectors to child poverty. Being assured of a hot lunch in the middle of the school day makes pupils’ lives be...

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4 w. ago Tskaltubo, Stalin’s spa resort: the decay of a Soviet past in Georgia

Tskaltubo enjoyed years of prosperity as a jewel of Soviet architecture. But after the collapse of the USSR in December 1991 the sanatoriums were abandoned, and in 1992 people fleeing the war in Abkhazia found refuge here. While efforts continue to restore the spa town to its former glory, silence and greenery prevail as a few families hold out amid the rubbleThe right to rest for workers was enshrined in the 1936 constitution of the Soviet Union. Article 119 guaranteed “annual vacations with full pay for workers and employees and the provision of a wide network of sanatoriums”. Fourteen years earlier, the 1922 labour code had established that every worker was entitled to two weeks of annual leave and hundreds of sanatoriums were built across the vast territory that made up the Soviet socialist republics. These establishments, conceived as a combination of health resorts and medical centres, served as places for workers to rest and recuperate, thus helping to optimise their producti...

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