Behind hospital doors

Supporting NHS staff, patients and communities, and funding life-changing projects, the national charity transforms people’s lives every day

As my daughter Emma, then 35, made a cup of tea, I began tidying up the toys scattered around the room. ‘Leave that, Mum, the kids will only make a mess again,’ Emma laughed. ‘It’s my pleasure,’ I rep

Nobody wants a brothel on their doorstep, but recognising prostitution as work could protect women, says Michelle Hather

At the age of nine, Terri White fled from violence to a woman’s refuge. Today, she talks to Jess Phillips , Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls

Over her decade as a prison officer, Alex South worked with some extraordinary colleagues, and saw what prisons at their best are like. She also saw the bad side – illicit affairs, violence, squalid conditions – getting gradually worse

With a rise in teachers being banned from the profession for sexual misconduct with students, Closer speaks to one mum whose son was taken advantage of and looks at how we can reduce the stigma for male victims…