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...
