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...
