by Agency Reporter | Mar 6, 2024 | Briefing
MEMBERS of Christian Climate Action are celebrating after major insurance company, Probitas 1492, confirmed that it will never insure two major new fossil fuels projects – the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) and the proposed West Cumbria coal mine. Members of...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 5, 2024 | Briefing
MEN would benefit more than women from the Chancellor’s rumoured plans to cut National Insurance Contributions (NICs) by one percentage point, at a cost of about £4.5 billion a year. Lone mothers would gain the least of working age groups at £40 per year, compared to...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 5, 2024 | Briefing
TENS of thousands of unpaid carers and their families, already at financial breaking point, could face disaster if a vital Government scheme to help vulnerable households ends, Carers Trust has warned. The Household Support Fund, allocated to local authorities to...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 4, 2024 | Briefing
A NEW review has concluded that privatised hospitals typically deliver worse quality care after converting from public ownership. The study, led by University of Oxford researchers, has been published in The Lancet Public Health. The researchers carried out a...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 2, 2024 | Briefing
THE lack of meaningful action to tackle Britain’s cold homes over the last decade has only intensified existing inequalities. The level of harm being felt by many millions of households across the country is now at the point of crisis, according to a new review...
