Building societies are helping to tackle the challenges facing mortgage prisoners by helping those with regulated and active lenders to switch product and calling for Government to protect mortgage prisoners with unregulated lenders going forward.

"It is time Parliament acted to empower individuals, ensuring that nobody with a rational desire to end their suffering is forced to suffer" says Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable.

As the UK looks to leave the European Union and seeks to build trading partnerships elsewhere the question will be asked – what price is trade with Britain? Pursue trade deals with despotic regimes while ignoring their human rights abuses and we risk losing our good name in a fire sale, warns Alistair Carmichael MP.

Since 2011-12 the number of elderly and vulnerable patients has increased while the number of beds to put them in has decreased by just over 7000, says Royal College of Emergency Medicine.

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care should have explicit powers in law for the growth and development of the health and care workforce across England, says Eleanor Smith MP. 

Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron writes calling on the next PM to embrace the HS2 project not cancel it, following the remaining stages of the High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill yesterday.

If we are to achieve a world where poverty, inequality and injustice are a thing of the past, we must all work together to drive change, says Baroness Sugg. 

Plaid Cymru MP, Jonathan Edwards, discusses the risk a No Deal Brexit poses to agriculture ahead of a debate on the issue in the House of Commons and the upcoming Royal Welsh Agricultural Show. 

The Equality and Human Rights Commission calls on the Government to end the ambiguity on teaching of LGBT rights, saying no child should be made to think that who they are is something to be ashamed of. 

Dods People draws together a list of appointments in Westminster politics, the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector in the last week.

International Trade Secretary Liam Fox writes for PoliticsHome, saying the newly launched International Trade Development Programme aims to cultivate the next generation of negotiators, policy makers and HM Trade Commissioners.

The recently launched WELL programme is a collaboration between the nuclear industry and Cumbria County Council, and Lord Jim O’Neill, vice-chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and founding trustee of SHINE highlights how this unique kind of approach is Educating the North.

The use of artificial intelligence and automation in the public sector opens the door to new efficiencies and transformative systems. However, it is also awash with ethical and practical challenges, explains Guinevere Poncia

The outgoing President of the UK’s veterinary regulator, the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, spoke to PoliticsHome about improving veterinary regulation in the UK, achieving greater diversity in the UK vet workforce and the animal health and welfare concerns associated with a no-deal Brexit.

The global water and sanitation crisis is rooted in power, poverty and inequality, not just in physical availability. To achieve transformative change and secure universal access by 2030 a political step-change on WASH globally is required, says Bethan Twigg, Advocacy Coordinator, WaterAid.

If the final frontier of humanity is to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life, and boldly go where no man has gone before, then look not up, but down, writes Samuel Place. 

The Health Foundation's Director Jo Bibby calls for a "whole-government approach" to health and social care and one which "places the value of people’s health and wellbeing on an equal footing with measures of GDP".

Health Secretary Matt Hancock, Health Select Committee Chair Sarah Wollaston, and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell joined parliamentarians in celebrating NHS staff at the annual NHS Parliamentary Awards. 

Former Minister and Tesco Director, Baroness Neville-Rolfe, writes ahead of her debate in the House of Lords on "Creating an environment which encourages business growth and job creation, especially in relation to the tax system". 

Police officers and staff deserve greater investment in wellbeing support, training and development, according to the College of Policing.

It’s time to reimagine our economy with one simple purpose – a world in which both humanity and our life-giving planet thrive, says Caroline Lucas MP.

In the last ten years the number of highly skilled freelancers has grown by half. What few people have realised, however, is the big part disabled people are playing in this, says Jonathan Lima-Matthews, Public Affairs Manager at IPSE.

Liberal Democrat Lords spokesperson for Digital writes following the conclusion of the Government’s Online Harms White Paper consultation and writes: “It would be a major mistake however to legislate too hastily before the definitions of harm and the scope in particular have been thoroughly debated.”

Selling electrical goods online cannot be a free pass on contributing to safety, writes Carolyn Harris MP.