News about Kate Silverton

£300m bill for handouts: Spending on disability benefits for people claiming to have ADHD shoots up 41,000 per cent within a decade

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 13, 2024
British taxpayers are shelling out an astonishing £292 million a year in disability benefits to people claiming to have ADHD, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Our investigation shows that spending on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) claims has shot up from just £700,000 per year in 2013 - a rise of more than 41,000 per cent. The payments are included in a staggering £5.1 billion of public sector cash given out last year under Personal Independence Payments (PIP) for mental disorders, compared with £34.4 million in 2013, when the scheme was introduced.

Kate Silverton explores her fertility struggles in the hopes of assisting other women

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 4, 2023
Kate Silverton has opened up about her struggles to get pregnant in the hopes of assisting other women with fertility problems. With her ex-Royal Marine husband Mike Heron, the former BBC News presenter, 52, admitted that she went through several rounds of failed IVF before revealing her daughter Clemency Rose, 11, and son Wilbur, eight. She took a step back from her broadcasting career to enroll as a children's counsellor in 2020.