To mark the King’s Coronation, Britain’s leading bookmakers will donate all profits from the feature handicap Britannia Stakes race at this year’s Royal Ascot to some of the UK’s top charities.

Women’s sport is growing – fast. More people are playing, participating and watching than ever before.

CEO of Veterans Aid Dr Hugh Milroy's recent interactions on the international stage have caused him to reflect on both the universality and complexity of individual nations' post-service problems - and the need to take a 'bottom up' approach to resolving them.

Government has finally – after many delays since it was first announced in 2019 – today introduced a bill which will pass much needed regulation for the private rented sector.

More social housing is the key to preventing the need for temporary accommodation. That is why I am supporting IKEA and Shelter’s Real Life Roomsets campaign to build 90,000 new social homes a year.

Tomorrow many people across the country will head to the polls to vote in local council – and in some cases mayoral – elections.

Post-war council estates suffer a barrage of stigmatising representations. Central and local governments, think tanks, and property companies call them ‘sink estates’ and ‘concrete monstrosities’. In television dramas and feature films, council estates are invariably grim and crime ridden. These representations have real-world effects. They establish social moods and opinions that encourage and justify the wave of estate demolitions that have beset London and other cities in recent decades.

The days of construction careers being portrayed as low paid, low skilled, low prospect jobs for academic underachievers should have been confined to history, yet research by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) shows the sector remains tainted by these outdated misconceptions.

Charities up and down the country have won big thanks to the Grand National Charity Bet campaign, which has raised thousands for good causes.

Having worked as a nurse for over 20 years, mental health minister Maria Caulfield has “a foot in both camps”. She speaks to Sophie Church about how the government is increasingly taking a holistic approach to mental health, and sheds light on her spat with a certain Countdown presenter…

On 21 February 2023, the Minister for Women and Equalities asked for our advice on the definition of the protected characteristic of sex in the Equality Act 2010.

In April 2019, the government announced: “Private landlords will no longer be able to evict tenants from their homes at short notice and without good reason.”

The announcement by the government to name community wealth funds as a new cause of the expanded Dormant Assets Scheme – an initiative that brings together unclaimed funds from bank and building society accounts and insurance, pensions and securities – will, hopefully, represent a seismic shift in how the most deprived and under-resourced parts of the country receive the funding they desperately need.

Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove has confirmed that laughing gas canisters will be banned as part of a government clampdown on antisocial behaviour.

Liam Fox passed the world’s first legislation for Down syndrome through his Private Member’s Bill. He speaks to Sophie Church about the joys of passing a bill that he says will support people with Down syndrome for years to come

On International Women’s Day, it was fitting that one of the most inspiring contributions at a reception to mark a year of progress in our work to level up Essex, came from an ordinary woman who had made an extraordinary contribution to her community.

Eleven housing developers face a ban from constructing new buildings in England, having failed so far to sign the contract committing them to remediating safety issues.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Homes for Ukraine scheme, a scheme which has highlighted the generosity of the British people and the hard work of councils to help more than 160,000 Ukrainians settle in the United Kingdom.

The second HIV is Not a Crime Awareness Day is on 28 February 2023. It was launched by the Sero Project who are part of the HIV JUSTICE WORLDWIDE coalition — in collaboration with the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, community activists and public policy organisations across the United States. The day is a call to give life to the various statements and policy recommendations recognising the negative impacts of HIV criminalisation on health and rights.

Over half of all charities in a recent poll have said they fear financial collapse amid unprecedented demand and a huge drop in donations in response to the cost-of-living crisis.

Few subjects cause as much friction between front and back benches as planning and housing targets.

The adult social care sector in England is seeing fee increases of 9-10% for the next financial year, based on the current RPI and a "fair cost of care exercise." However, these increases are still below market costs by as much as 40%, which puts pressure on providers to fill beds with self-funded residents to compensate for the low prices paid by commissioners. A minimum national tariff for adult social care is urgently needed to avoid further bed blocking in the NHS and to reduce insolvencies, but without it, adult social care in the UK will be unviable.

The COVID-19 pandemic put global health systems under incredible strain. The result? The response to HIV, as well as other infectious diseases, is further off-track. Yet there remains reason for optimism.

In a stinging polemic, architectural historian and author of Making Dystopia Professor James Stevens Curl gives The House his view on exactly how Britain’s built environment lost its way