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Patrick Butler

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Patrick Butler is the Guardian's social policy editor

June 2026

  • Ceri and Frances Menai-Davis.

    Parents caring for seriously ill children in UK could get financial support under ‘Hugh’s law’

    Proposals considered by government would strengthen protections for parents forced to become full-time carers
  • Keir Starmer visits a defence contractor in Bedfordshire

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Downing Street rejects US claim of ‘two-tiered policing’ over Henry Nowak death - as it happened

    PM’s spokesperson also dismissed remarks from Kemi Badenoch, who suggested the identity politics could lead to civil war
  • An elderly woman walks along a corridor in a care home

    Ruling removes ‘vital’ UK safeguards for severely disabled people, charities warn

    Campaigners say supreme court judgment on deprivation of liberty safeguards introduces ‘regressive legal standard’

May 2026

  • Welcome to Scotland border sign on the A1 north of Berwick-upon-Tweed

    Striking differences in benefit entitlements across UK countries, study finds

  • A brick terraced cottage with white-framed windows, a central front door, and small potted plants by the entrance

    Families secure future of UK care home after uncovering management failures

  • Head and shoulders shot of Millar wearing dark glasses reflecting light, with gold discs on the wall behind him

    Blind UK pop producer to take legal action over alleged lack of support at work after surgery

  • The letters 'DWP' printed in green on a light blue document

    DWP pursued woman’s employer for nonexistent ‘benefit debt’

  • Former footballer given regulatory ban over financial mismanagement at PFA

  • ‘Absolutely beautiful’ but no shops for miles: the Cotswolds’ rural food deserts

  • Rural Britain is becoming ‘food desert’ for lower-income families, study finds

  • Millions of unpaid UK carers ‘living in agony’, says Louise Casey

  • ‘We can’t live behind walls’: Muslim-Jewish networks will not give up after Golders Green attack

April 2026

  • Construction carpentry apprentice using circular saw on building site

    ‘Apprenticeship penalty’ on benefits forces young people from poorer UK families to quit

  • A child holds a toy

    More than a fifth of UK’s ‘austerity children’ scarred by poverty, study says

  • A person pushing a disabled man in a wheelchair along a road in a park

    Carer's allowance crisis
    Thousands of unpaid carers to face DWP repayment demands during overhaul

  • A volunteer giving advice to a woman who has just arrived in the UK in what appears to be an office or community centre

    Charity cleared after false claims online over migrant welcome project

March 2026

  • A playground with some flats behind.

    London has England’s highest levels of child poverty, data shows

  • Thurrock Council civic offices

    Fifteen new councils to be created in south and east of England

  • Generic stock picture of pupils in school uniform walking down the street. The picture is cropped at their waists.File photo dated 26/01/12 of generic stock picture of pupils. Rising staff costs and a growing demand for special educational needs provision is driving more academy trusts into deficit, a report has suggested. Nearly three in five (58%) trusts were running an in-year deficit in 2024, according to an analysis of the financial data of more than 260 academy trusts in England which represent nearly 2,300 schools. Issue date: Thursday February 6, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story EDUCATION Funding. Photo credit should read: David Jones/PA Wire

    Councils in England must outline Send plans to access £860m funding pot

  • Person pushing wheelchair user along seafront promenade by beach

    MPs threaten fresh inquiry into carers allowance scandal amid redress delays

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