by Agency Reporter | Oct 5, 2023 | Briefing
A GROUP of Christians has completed a four day pilgrimage from Barrow-in-Furness to Grange-over-Sands, calling for an end to nuclear weapons and praying for world peace. The group, which included worshippers from a range of denominations and traditions, started at...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 5, 2023 | Briefing
YARL’S WOOD, an immigration removal centre (IRC) holding both men and women near Bedford, is no longer safe enough according to a recent inspection by HM Inspectorate of Prisons. Despite there being little overt violence, 41 per cent of those held there said...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 4, 2023 | Briefing
THE UK’s threadbare social security system is on track to reach its lowest level since records began, according to a new report by the Institute if Public Policy Research (IPPR). In 1971, out-of-work benefits were worth 20.1 per cent of a man’s weekly median...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 4, 2023 | Briefing
THE social media platform formerly known as Twitter, now called X, has introduced a new privacy policy which allows the company to collect users’ biometric data and access encrypted messages. In response, Michael Kleinman, Amnesty International’s Silicon Valley...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 3, 2023 | Briefing
FAITH primary schools in England are admitting fewer children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) than local authority community primaries, according to new research from the London School of Economics (LSE). In research funded by the British...
by Staff Writer | Oct 3, 2023 | Briefing
ENGLAND’S adults’ hospices have faced a real-terms cut in their government funding of £47 million in the past two years, according to new data from Hospice UK. Insufficient NHS funding means many hospices are struggling to keep up with inflation and rising...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 2, 2023 | Briefing
THE evidence session for Module 2 of the COVID-19 Public Inquiry begins on 3 October, when the spotlight will be on Westminster government decision making between early January 2020 until February 2022. A legal team representing Disabled People’s Organisations...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 2, 2023 | Briefing
STRUGGLING families would be substantially worse off than they were five years ago if benefits are not uprated with inflation, new analysis from Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) shows. The Government has so far not said that it will uprate benefits next April by this...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 1, 2023 | Briefing
MORE than 11,600 children crossed the Central Mediterranean Sea to Italy without their parents or legal guardians between January and mid-September 2023. This is an increase of 60 per cent compared to the same period last year, where around 7,200 unaccompanied or...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 30, 2023 | Briefing
A new report into UK wildfire resilience has been published by the Fire Brigades Union, uncovering a ‘dangerous’ lack of UK-wide strategy, planning and investment. The report reveals the extent of the fragmentation and under-resourcing of fire and rescue services....
