by Agency Reporter | Jul 20, 2024 | Briefing
BANNING French women athletes who wear hijabs from competing at the Olympic Games breaches international human rights laws and exposes the discriminatory hypocrisy of French authorities and the craven weakness of the International Olympic Committee, says Amnesty...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 20, 2024 | Briefing
AS the school year ends and a new government sets priorities, a clearer picture emerges of a growing problem in England’s schools, with the most vulnerable children most at risk of falling out of school, and 4,100 children sent home every day. The Who’s Losing...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 19, 2024 | Briefing
A NEW Women’s Aid report shows that 22 per cent of women supported by the charity’s No Woman Turned Away project have experienced further abuse from the perpetrator while waiting for a refuge space, with 2.9 per cent forced into sleeping rough to escape...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 19, 2024 | Briefing
IN the report of Module 1 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Baroness Hallett says that the public health, NHS and social care sectors’ capacity to respond to the pandemic was constrained by funding, and negatively impacted by severe staff shortages and an...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 18, 2024 | Briefing
WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES (WCC) General Secretary. the Rev Prof Dr Jerry Pillay has welcomed positive developments in ongoing talks between the warring parties in Sudan. “The call for a ceasefire and the encouragement of dialogue among the conflict parties represent...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 18, 2024 | Briefing
THE NHS is struggling to meet rapidly rising demand and increasingly complex and acute care needs among children and young people, a survey by NHS Providers has found. The report, Forgotten generation: Shaping better services for children and young people, found that:...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 17, 2024 | Briefing
AN ANALYSIS of who voted for Labour in the General Election, and what they want, has found a coalition backing bold action on the economy. The new survey finds that voters who put Labour in government are more united than many think. For example: On the economy:...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 17, 2024 | Briefing
PEOPLE are in need of more complex care and support due to illness and disability, but local councils are struggling financially to meet these higher-level needs, says the latest annual survey from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS). 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 Agency Reporter | Jul 16, 2024 | Briefing
THE international development agency Christian Aid will this afternoon be delivering letters written by Gaza children to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer MP. The letters ask him to intervene and help bring about a permanent ceasefire. Christian Aid’s...
