Patrick Butler

What does a “food desert” look like? In the case of the modestly affluent Cotswolds village of Kempsford, very pretty.

Rural Britain is becoming a “food desert” for lower-income families as the closure of local shops and poor public transport leaves them at disproportionately high risk of hunger and cost of living pressures, new research shows.

Deep-rooted problems of food inequality are hidden behind area’s affluence and beauty

Professional Footballers’ Association ‘let players down’ under finance director Darren Wilson, says watchdog

Exclusive: Employer of woman who cares for disabled mother was asked to deduct ‘debt’ from salary despite court ruling she had nothing to pay

A woman providing full-time unpaid care for her elderly disabled mother says her job has been put in jeopardy because welfare officials wrongly

The head of one of the UK's biggest disability charities is planning a legal challenge against the owners of the music business he founded in a

Charity Commission inquiry into William Blake House in Northamptonshire resulted in rescue plan

A group of “accidental activist” families have succeeded in their efforts to secure the future of their children's care home after uncovering serious alleged management failures that took the charity to the brink of bankruptcy.

The emergence of “welfare nationalism” in the UK has created striking differences in benefit entitlement that result in a Scottish family on a low