by Agency Reporter | Jun 16, 2024 | Briefing
A NEW set of online resources have been launched to help people speak more confidently about the situation in the Middle East. The international development agency Christian Aid understands people may shy away from conversations about Israel and the occupied...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 15, 2024 | Briefing
FOUR HUNDRED YEARS after the birth of one of their founders, Quakers in Cumbria celebrated where it all began on Firbank Fell with their annual outdoor meeting for worship. On 13 June 1652, George Fox spoke to 1,000 people for three hours from a rock three miles...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 15, 2024 | Briefing
IN a letter published in The Guardian on 12 June, the Rev Dr Tessa Henry-Robinson, Moderator of the United Reformed Church (URC) General Assembly, responded to a suggestion that it was absurd for her as a Black British woman to deliver the URC’s apology to Black...
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...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 13, 2024 | Briefing
EUROPE’S agriculture industry is exploiting the at least 2.4 million migrants who harvest Europe’s fruits and vegetables, according to a new report by the University of Comillas and Oxfam researchers. The report, Essential but invisible and exploited reveals...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 13, 2024 | Briefing
WITH three weeks to go until the general election, research from the UK’s top youth and education organisations has revealed that 70 per cent of young people do not know the name of their local MP, and two in five (39 per cent) say they do not understand what...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 12, 2024 | Briefing
THE financial crisis in universities is ‘engulfing’ nursing courses, as more than six in ten (61 per cent) nurse lecturers and other higher education nursing staff across the UK report redundancies and recruitment freezes. The situation is particularly severe in...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 12, 2024 | Briefing
A STATEMENT from the World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee has called upon “all parties involved to immediately commit to a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, to ensure unhindered humanitarian access from all borders and the delivery of sufficient...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 11, 2024 | Briefing
MILLIONS of the UK’s unpaid carers looking after disabled, older or ill relatives or friends are faced with no choice about taking on an unpaid caring role, due to a lack of alternative care options. Responding to a YouGov Omnibus poll of nearly 6,500 members of the...
