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Victoria’s Healesville Sanctuary is helping to protect and restore the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot which is predicted to be extinct within five years.With only 50 known…

Ministers may have breached privacy laws when they suspended the child benefit of thousands of families on the basis of flawed Home Office information, legal experts…

A woman who booked a flight from London to Oslo but never checked in or travelled has had her child benefit stopped by the UK government.…

The UK tax authorities have announced they will no longer cut off parents’ child benefit payments after a new crackdown on overseas fraud backfired due to…

Parents in Northern Ireland have had their child support payments stopped as part of the UK government’s crackdown on alleged benefit fraud simply because they flew…

Every islander on Orkney is expected to benefit from a major windfarm being built by the local council after it won £62m in financing from the…

Bridget Phillipson, No 10’s preferred candidate for deputy leader, recently called the two-child benefit cap “spiteful”. Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, labelled it “abhorrent.…

Rachel Reeves is to lift the two-child benefit limit in the budget, a key demand of Labour MPs and child poverty campaigners, with officials exploring options…

Teaching unions have written to the prime minister asking him to scrap the two-child benefit cap ahead of Labour’s annual conference, which begins in Liverpool on…

Labour has restored the party whip John McDonnell and Apsana Begum 14 months after they lost it for rebelling over the two-child benefit cap, the Guardian…