by Agency Reporter | Aug 31, 2024 | Briefing
AS schools look to a new academic year, school leaders, governors, teaching unions, Child Poverty Action Group and others working in schools have written to Secretary of State for Education Bridget Phillipson, calling for the two-child benefit limit to be scrapped in...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 31, 2024 | Briefing
THE United Nations has recognised a wide range of concerns raised by civil society organisations, including Quakers, in its latest review of racism in the UK. Quakers in Britain submitted evidence on the lack of UK progress on racism to the UN Committee on the...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 30, 2024 | Briefing
THE UK’s tax system is holding back efforts to make the country fairer, with the under-taxing of income from wealth exacerbating harmful inequalities for poorer areas of the country. Analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and IPPR North finds that...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 30, 2024 | Briefing
HUMAN rights organisation Liberty has questioned the new Government’s “concerning disregard for the rule of law” as the Home Office has instructed lawyers to proceed with an appeal against a recent High Court ruling that anti-protest legislation had been created...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 29, 2024 | Briefing
ISRAELI forces failed to take all feasible precautions to avoid or minimise harm to civilians sheltering at camps for internally-displaced people while carrying out two attacks targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the south of Gaza in May, said Amnesty International...
