The pontiff had recently resumed some official duties earlier this month during his recovery from pneumonia.

Pope Francis appointed more women to leadership roles than any previous pontiff.

Professor Anna Rowlands spent two years seconded to the Vatican during Francis’s papacy.

It came as the head of the equalities watchdog branded the court judgment ‘enormously consequential’.

The Supreme Court said the terms woman and sex in the 2010 Equality Act ‘refer to a biological woman and biological sex’.

Campaigners who brought the legal case have told of their delight but others raised concerns at the implications.

Former MP Joanna Cherry said there must be ‘a sea-change’ across the public sector to recognise the law has been clarified.

The US Department of State and vice president have made comments on UK law in recent weeks.

Organisations working in the sector argue that 109 children across the UK are pulled into poverty by the policy every day.

Several trustees have left the charity in a dispute with its chairwoman, Sophie Chandauka.

Bridget Phillipson will speak alongside Dame Rachel de Souza at the commissioner’s inaugural Festival Of Childhood: Our Future, Our Voice.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill returns to the House of Commons this month for further debate.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill returns to the House of Commons this month for further debate.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill returns to the House of Commons this month for further debate.

Tom Crowther was named in January as someone who would help the Government with their work to tackle child sex abuse and grooming gangs.

Alex Norris was also asked about calls for a national oversight mechanism to monitor whether inquiry recommendations are being implemented.

Three quarters of the parents questioned said they are concerned about what their children are seeing, hearing or doing online.

Just half of people donated and only a fifth sponsoring for charitable causes.

A National Audit Office report found wide variation in the rate at which job centres in different areas got people into work.