by Staff Writer | Apr 1, 2024 | Briefing
STATUTORY sick pay is failing to provide enough support for those who most need financial help when ill and should be increased and made more widely available, MPs say in a new cross-party report. Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) is currently £109.40 per week, (it will be...
by Staff Writer | Mar 30, 2024 | Briefing
THE Society of Jesus (Jesuits) issued a statement in Rome on 28 March, in which they say they refuse to be silent in the face of the killing, famine and spread of disease in Gaza. The choice of death over life and vengeance over reconciliation is, they insist, a...
by Staff Writer | Mar 22, 2024 | Briefing
THE latest official poverty statistics show child poverty in the UK has reached a record high, with an estimated 100,000 more children pulled into poverty last year. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)’s annual Households Below Average Income shows 4.3 million...
by Staff Writer | Mar 20, 2024 | Briefing
ON 18 March 2024, the UK government provided its oral defence to the United Nations Committee for the Rights of Disabled People, regarding the UK’s “grave and systemic” violations of the Convention on the Rights of Disabled People (CRDP). The government refused to...
by Staff Writer | Mar 14, 2024 | Briefing
AROUND one in five children in Northern Ireland are living in relative poverty, before housing costs. A report published by Northern Ireland’s Comptroller and Auditor General, Dorinnia Carville, on 12 March also highlighted the fact that eight per cent of...
