by Agency Reporter | May 13, 2024 | Briefing
ALMOST half (49 per cent) of the general public underestimate the scale of poverty in later life, according to new polling from financial hardship charity Independent Age. One in six older people currently live in poverty (around 2 million), yet when asked what...
by Agency Reporter | May 12, 2024 | Briefing
RESEARCH by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) has found that 41 per cent of all council homes sold under the right to buy scheme are now being let on the private market. NEF Freedom of Information requests found that the number of homes bought under right to buy and...
by Agency Reporter | May 11, 2024 | Briefing
A NEW report commissioned by campaign group More Than A Score reveals that the final year of primary school is dominated by preparation for SATs, with negative effects on teaching as well as pupil and teacher wellbeing. Year 6 SATs tests will begin in primary schools...
by Agency Reporter | May 11, 2024 | Briefing
A LETTER signed by 86 civil society organisations was sent to the prime minister on 9 May, calling for him to cease evading the scrutiny of the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Professor Michael Fakhri. In August 2022, over 21 months ago,...
by Agency Reporter | May 10, 2024 | Briefing
DURING Prime Minster’s Questions in the House of Commons on 8 May, in answer to a question from Stephen Flynn, SNP leader in the Commons, Rishi Sunak said that “the UK Government doesn’t, itself, directly provide or ship arms to Israel”. Amnesty International...
