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...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 3, 2024 | Briefing
ABOUT 1,000 people a day are fleeing into South Sudan from Sudan after nearly one year of war, arriving in scorching heat and with children in dire need of support, Save the Children said. More than 600,000 people – both refugees and returnees – have crossed the...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 3, 2024 | Briefing
NEW Money and Credit figures released on 2 April by the Bank of England show mortgage borrowing rising, while consumer credit borrowing slowed to £1.4 billion in February, though it was still 8.7 per cent higher than a year earlier. Debt charity StepChange says that...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 2, 2024 | Briefing
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION Member States have agreed to resume negotiations from 29 April to 10 May, aimed at finalising a pandemic agreement . The decision came at the end of two weeks of intensive country-led discussions on critical subjects aimed at making all...
by Agency Reporter | Apr 2, 2024 | Briefing
A REVIEW of the criminal exploitation of children commissioned by Action for Children has found the system for dealing with it is not fit for purpose. It also found the lack of a UK-wide strategy is resulting in serious and preventable harm being caused to children...
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 Agency Reporter | Mar 31, 2024 | Briefing
AS violent conflict surges around the globe, Quakers in Britain have produced a new free peace education pack to help secondary school teachers prepare learners to build peace, not war. A sequel to the award-winning primary pack, Teach Peace Secondary provides fifty...
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 Agency Reporter | Mar 29, 2024 | Briefing
LAWYERS for ClientEarth have warned the UK’s environmental watchdog that the 2024 ‘emergency authorisation’ of a pesticide which poses a serious risk to honeybees and waterways may be yet another instance of the government breaching environmental law. This comes just...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 29, 2024 | Briefing
THE UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters has agreed guidance on designing wealth tax laws, opening the door for countries to tax extreme wealth. It is estimated that there is more than twice as much wealth hidden offshore beyond the rule...
