by Agency Reporter | Dec 24, 2023 | Briefing
A new report has urged the creation of a kitemark-style accreditation scheme for employers whose workforces include refugees and people fleeing war and persecution. The report, from the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), recommends more support be made...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 24, 2023 | Briefing
PRESIDENT Biden has announced that his administration will commute the sentences of 11 people impacted by the ‘war on drugs’ – people serving unjustly long sentences due to the disparity in sentencing between powder and crack cocaine. The president also...
by Simon Barrow | Dec 23, 2023 | Update
WITH Gaza under continual attack and bombardment, the displacement of nearly 90 per cent of the population, and the West Bank living under siege conditions, the Christian communities there have declared the usual Christmas celebrations cancelled. Instead, the coming...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 23, 2023 | Briefing
LAW firm Leigh Day conducted a survey for Amazon delivery drivers, who described their experience working for Amazon as “pure hell”, with “never a spare second to eat or drink”, “having to pee in bottles due to an ever increasing and unmanageable workload”, and being...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 23, 2023 | Briefing
COUNCILLOR Pete Marland, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Economy and Resources Board, has written to Laura Trott MP, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, on the future of the Household Support Fund (HSF). The HSF is money from central government...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 22, 2023 | Briefing
THE Food Foundation has published a briefing, funded by The Nuffield Foundation, that investigates food insecurity and inequalities experienced by disabled people. The Foundation has been conducting nationally representative surveys to monitor levels of food...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 22, 2023 | Briefing
NINE in ten people sleeping rough in England have experienced violence or abuse on the street, half have been physically attacked and one in five had someone urinate on or next to them. “The first thing that jumped into my mind was this: if I survive this night then...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 21, 2023 | Briefing
FIVE organisations representing NHS leaders and patients have jointly written to the Chair of the Council of the BMA and to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, expressing their concerns about the on-going industrial action within the NHS. The...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 21, 2023 | Briefing
BECOME, the leading national charity for children in care and young care leavers, is sounding the alarm on the numbers of children and young people being moved at Christmas. The charity is calling for “urgent and ambitious action to ensure children in care have...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 20, 2023 | Briefing
OVER the last six months, The Wildlife Trusts have conducted two nationwide surveys of their members and the wider public. While it was already known that there are nearly a million members of The Wildlife Trusts and, collectively, membership of the largest nature...
