by Staff Writer | Apr 15, 2024 | Briefing
THESE are challenging times to live and work in prisons, says the Chief Inspector of Prisons in a new report. With rising drugs, violence and self-harm, and overcrowded squalid conditions in many jails, reoffending rates remain stubbornly high, at almost 37 per...
by Staff Writer | Apr 11, 2024 | Briefing
SPEAKING on 9 April at a press conference in New York on the conflict in Gaza, David Cameron mentioned the need to have a ‘plan B’ should the conflict escalate into Rafah and said that the UK’s arms export to Israel will continue. Responding, Oxfam’s Chief...
by Staff Writer | Apr 10, 2024 | Briefing
IN a new publication from UCL Policy Lab and Hertford College, Oxford, leading figures from British diplomacy and international development, including the former Cabinet Secretary Lord Mark Sedwill, call for a renewed vision of UK foreign affairs. Following a series...
by Staff Writer | Apr 6, 2024 | Briefing
CHRISTIAN AID Head of Middle East Policy and Advocacy, William Bell, has confirmed that the charity will not scale down its work in Gaza. “The devastating deaths of seven more aid workers, in addition to the numerous Palestinian aid workers and more than 32,000...
by Staff Writer | Apr 4, 2024 | Briefing
THE Howard League for Penal Reform has responded to HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ report on Wymott prison, published on Wednesday 3 April. Inspectors visited the prison in Lancashire in December 2023, and found that high staff sickness rates resulted in there being too...
