by Staff Writer | Jul 26, 2024 | Briefing
RATES of self-harm and assaults are soaring in prisons, reveals the latest statistical bulletin published by the Ministry of Justice. Prisons recorded 73,804 incidents of self-harm in the 12 months to the end of March 2024, at a rate of one every seven minutes. In the...
by Staff Writer | Jul 16, 2024 | Briefing
SECTION 1 of The Equality Act 2010 introduced a socio-economic duty on public bodies, requiring them to make decisions, “in a way that is designed to reduce the inequalities of outcome which result from socio-economic disadvantage.” After the 2010 election, the...
by Staff Writer | Jul 15, 2024 | Briefing
INSPECTORS on an unannounced visit to Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) near Heathrow found the worst conditions they have seen in immigration detention. Much of the accommodation was decrepit, violence and other unacceptable behaviour such as drug use...
by Staff Writer | Jun 14, 2024 | Briefing
TODAY marks the seventh anniversary of the fire at Grenfell Tower, a 23 storey tower block in North Kensington, London. The fire broke out on the fourth floor just before 1 am on 14 June 2017, and quickly spread up the exterior of the building. Seventy two people were...
by Staff Writer | Jun 14, 2024 | Briefing
IN the latest Department for Education school census, 54,000 pupils were identified as being a young carer, including 21,000 primary school pupils. This was only the second year for which such data was recorded, and showed an increase on the previous year, when just...