Colombian national Isabella Acevedo asks to be treated with same leniency as Harper following reshuffle promotion as Disabled People's Minister

Watchdog investigation closes down 13 unsafe building sites, hands 85 enforcement notices and warns 201 others

Ranks of co-ordinated action swelled by local government workers fighting for decent pay

Vulnerable children being failed by cuts to crucial protection services

Everywhere but inner London suffering from depressed job growth and temp work boom

Party leader insists dialogue with employers is the only answer and refuses to support July's two million-worker strike

Shady construction bosses fail to get their hands on victimised workers’ private data

Trade unionists urge members to say Yes to biggest public-sector walkout in years

Union leaders criticise coalition posturing as cost-of-living crisis deepens

Charity bosses urged not to exploit forced labour available through Con-Dem “workfare” programme which begins today

Racism row further engulfs Ukip as election candidate suggest actor and comedian Lenny Henry should go and live in a 'black country' if he thinks ethnic minorities are under-represented on British TV

Three courts in England begin pilots of a new scheme allowing vulnerable witnesses and victims to give their best evidence to criminal trials before those trials begin

Government vetoes huge payouts for RBS bankers — while fighting to scrap EU cap

But 75 premises have already been shut or franchised

Courageous campaigners take up the mantle against sellers of torture devices after authorities refuse to act

Inspectorate finds inmates living in filth and without window panes at HMYOI Brinsford

Country owes £10.7 billion more than official forecasts suggested thanks to counterproductive Tory policies

Energy giant pushed up bills by 10.2% in the run-up to the dispute — but offered below-inflation pay boost to workers

NASUWT Conference: Shadow education secretary says allegations highlight failed centralisation bid

NASUWT Conference: Poignant speech points out price of growing culture of checks and monitoring

Survey finds teaching, planning and grading by unqualified staff on the rise in nearly two-thirds of schools

Staff suffering cuts to conditions and wages at the hands of privateers Care UK

Unions and campaign groups called for an end to violence against journalists in Ukraine