by Agency Reporter | Dec 23, 2023 | Briefing
LAW firm Leigh Day conducted a survey for Amazon delivery drivers, who described their experience working for Amazon as “pure hell”, with “never a spare second to eat or drink”, “having to pee in bottles due to an ever increasing and unmanageable workload”, and being...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 23, 2023 | Briefing
COUNCILLOR Pete Marland, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Economy and Resources Board, has written to Laura Trott MP, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, on the future of the Household Support Fund (HSF). The HSF is money from central government...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 22, 2023 | Briefing
THE Food Foundation has published a briefing, funded by The Nuffield Foundation, that investigates food insecurity and inequalities experienced by disabled people. The Foundation has been conducting nationally representative surveys to monitor levels of food...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 22, 2023 | Briefing
NINE in ten people sleeping rough in England have experienced violence or abuse on the street, half have been physically attacked and one in five had someone urinate on or next to them. “The first thing that jumped into my mind was this: if I survive this night then...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 21, 2023 | Briefing
FIVE organisations representing NHS leaders and patients have jointly written to the Chair of the Council of the BMA and to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, expressing their concerns about the on-going industrial action within the NHS. The...