by Agency Reporter | Aug 9, 2024 | Briefing
THE Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has updated its position statement on poverty as a key driver of child health inequalities. The publication highlights that 30 per cent of children are now living in poverty and that this figure is contributing...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 9, 2024 | Briefing
THE number of households facing homelessness in England is the highest since records began, according to new government figures. Between January and March this year, 86,520 households approached their local council for homelessness assistance and were deemed eligible...
by Staff Writer | Aug 8, 2024 | Briefing
A highlight of this year’s Promenade Concerts season will be a performance on Saturday 17 August of the War Requiem, a large-scale work by Benjamin Britten. Britten, a pacifist and conscientious objector, wrote the War Requiem as his artistic response to the...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 8, 2024 | Briefing
CAMPAIGN Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has called on the UK government to clarify its position on issuing new arms export licences to Israel. There have been media reports that export licensing officials have suspended the processing of new applications for arms exports...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 7, 2024 | Briefing
QUAKERS in Britain, shocked and saddened by the recent violence on our streets, have released a statement in which they call on the government to protect those being attacked by the far right, to stop scapegoating Muslim and migrant communities, and to focus on fixing...
by Staff Writer | Aug 7, 2024 | Briefing
A CATASTROPHIC inspection of HMP Wandsworth in May led Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons to write to the then Secretary of State invoking an Urgent Notification for improvement. The full report from that inspection, now released, details the extent of the...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 6, 2024 | Briefing
A PLAN to combat the impact of population decline in parts of East Ayrshire is being developed by East Ayrshire Council with Scottish Government support. The local authority is one of six which will benefit from funding through the Addressing Depopulation Fund, which...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 6, 2024 | Briefing
A NEW REPORT from Amnesty International says that by denying and restricting access to abortion to millions of women since the overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022, and the Dobbs decision setting aside any constitutional right to abortion, the USA is failing to comply...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 5, 2024 | Briefing
CENTRE FOR CITIES estimates 68 per cent of households in England could have their annual council tax bill reduced by £494, or more than the value of the average yearly broadband bill, if council taxes were set locally and at more progressive rates. A majority of...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 5, 2024 | Briefing
AFTER more than 15 months of war in Sudan, a catastrophic combination of conflict, displacement and humanitarian access constraints has resulted in famine in a camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur Region. The Famine Review...
