by Agency Reporter | Sep 4, 2024 | Briefing
IN JANUARY this year, the Women’s Budget Group (WBG) launched a six-month trial reducing its full-time working hours to 30 per week without loss of pay. This shorter working week has now become a permanent change, reflecting the WBG’s commitment to align its...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 4, 2024 | Briefing
THIS ZERO WASTE WEEK (2-6 September 2024), Benthyg Cymru is championing the ‘borrow, don’t buy’ movement. Benthyg (ben-thig) means “to borrow or lend” in Welsh. Along with the Welsh Government they are encouraging people across Wales to find their nearest...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 3, 2024 | Briefing
A NEW REPORT by the Prison Reform Trust calls on the Ministry of Justice to publish a national strategy for the care and management of older prisoners as a matter of urgency. In just 20 years, the number of people in prison aged 50 or over has nearly trebled, rising...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 3, 2024 | Briefing
DAVID LAMMY, the Foreign Secretary, made a statement to Parliament on 2 September on the results of a review of arms export licences to Israel. Lammy announced the suspension of 30 export licences for use by the Israeli military that could be used in Gaza. However,...
by Staff Writer | Sep 2, 2024 | Briefing
A NEW REPORT from the Resolution Foundation, The Living Standards Outlook 2024, analyses what could happen to incomes and poverty over the course of this Parliament. The report says that while the living standards outlook for middle-income households is weak, it is...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 2, 2024 | Briefing
INTRODUCING statutory paid Carer’s Leave would bring significant benefits for more than two million working carers and the UK economy, far outweighing the modest costs of its introduction, according to the charity Carers UK. A new report from the charity estimates it...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 1, 2024 | Briefing
LOCAL authorities in England are spending a record £2.29 billion a year on providing emergency temporary accommodation to homeless households, according to new provisional government figures released on 29 August. The increasing reliance on temporary accommodation,...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 31, 2024 | Briefing
AS schools look to a new academic year, school leaders, governors, teaching unions, Child Poverty Action Group and others working in schools have written to Secretary of State for Education Bridget Phillipson, calling for the two-child benefit limit to be scrapped in...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 31, 2024 | Briefing
THE United Nations has recognised a wide range of concerns raised by civil society organisations, including Quakers, in its latest review of racism in the UK. Quakers in Britain submitted evidence on the lack of UK progress on racism to the UN Committee on the...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 30, 2024 | Briefing
THE UK’s tax system is holding back efforts to make the country fairer, with the under-taxing of income from wealth exacerbating harmful inequalities for poorer areas of the country. Analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and IPPR North finds that...
