Children as young as nine detained under the Mental Health Act are spending hours in accident and emergency departments under police control rather than in specialist mental health assessment suites….

Mothers who benefit from free state-funded childcare are less likely to look after elderly and sick members of their household, including their parents, new research shows. This was mainly because…

Teachers lack the time to talk in-depth to boys and young men who may be influenced by online misogynists, research says. Researchers surveyed 467 teachers in 39 secondary, primary and further…

Most young people from Black and racial minoritised communities surveyed about their social media use said they saw racist content at least once a week, a new report says. More…

Four in five women surveyed in Northern Ireland said their first experience of sexist behaviour or harassment by men happened when they were children, a study says. A researcher surveyed…

Personal trainers are suffering headaches and sleeping problems from the “corrosive” effect of working long hours to make a living, new research shows. Rather than an ideal of a glamorous…

People in police custody say they are being denied medication for their health problems by police and nurses, new research says. Dr Stephanie Mulrine interviewed 42 people with physical or…

Young people’s class loyalty is a stronger factor in voting Conservative at general elections than whether they have moved up or down the social ladder, a new study has found….

People who work from home all or part of the time are less likely to get pay rises and promotions, the first post-Covid research project into the WFH phenomenon has…