Child poverty: rhetoric and reality
While ministers wring their hands about the official definition of poverty, low-paid workers are embarrassed and isolated.
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South Africa’s biggest trial since apartheid puts a celebrity sportstar in the dock for the murder of his model girlfriend. But the cream of the country’s legal system are also in the spotlight.
Oscar Pistorius had transcended disability to become a sporting superstar. Now he stands trial for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp. Debora Patta sets the scene for South Africa’s trial of the century.
While ministers wring their hands about the official definition of poverty, low-paid workers are embarrassed and isolated.
Aggressive landlords and the fear of eviction: a new report shows how the private sector is increasingly being used by councils to house the vulnerable.
A UN Committee say the Catholic church has proved itself neither capable nor willing to properly root out abuse.
Even before the guilty verdict was released, a serious case review into the death of Hamzah Khan was announced. But with 200 launched a year, all with similar findings, how long before something changes?
As election day arrives in Australia, the gaffe-prone Liberal party leader Tony Abbott is favourite to become prime minister. Here are some of his most notable verbal slip-ups.
Much is made of the need to educate children about healthy eating. But what of the thousands of children whose parents cannot afford to put enough meals, of any quality, on the table?
Channel 4 News comes to you for a week of pop-up shows, travelling from Cornwall to Edinburgh to see how real the economic recovery really is. Today we’re in Edinburgh!
Top-selling US crime author Elmore Leonard, best known for movie adaptations Jackie Brown and Get Shorty, has died aged 87.
The government calls it a “spare room subsidy” – the system brought in 100 days ago to try to reduce “under-occupancy” in social housing.
Judging comprehensives against fee-paying selective schools is not comparing like with like, as the Chief Inspector should know only too well.
With one youth worker telling Channel 4 News that boys as young as 11 ask him if it is OK to strangle a girl while having sex, is it time to tackle the issue of children and pornography head-on?
Operation Bullfinch suggests sexual exploitation is a problem particular to the Pakistani Muslim community. But could it be wider than that?
This is the moment when we get George Osborne’s famed fairytale scrounger, idling in bed with the curtains drawn all day, up and off his backside and into work. Or do we?