by Agency Reporter | Sep 28, 2023 | Briefing
This year’s Quaker Week began (suitably) with silence as hundreds of Quakers across England and Scotland held climate vigils. From Bristol to Huddersfield to Okehampton, Quakers stood outside meeting houses, railway stations and playgrounds, to ask the prime minister...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 27, 2023 | Briefing
IN the March 2023 Budget, the government announced the largest and fastest expansion of free childcare on record, doubling spending on the free entitlement to a funded childcare place in just three years. By September 2025, the programme will offer up to 30 hours a...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 27, 2023 | Briefing
SIX young people from Portugal will present a landmark case before the European Court of Human Rights today (27 September) arguing that countries are breaching their human rights by failing to do enough to protect them from climate change. If they are successful, the...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 26, 2023 | Briefing
THE Local Government Association (LGA) and the Urban Transport Group have called for new powers for councils to decide the way local bus services are delivered to end a “spiral of decline” of services by protecting vital bus routes and reinvesting in local networks....
by Agency Reporter | Sep 26, 2023 | Briefing
A VICAR who claims he was the victim of repeated racial stereotyping when applying for posts in the Church of England has called on the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to conduct a statutory investigation into racism within the Church. The Rev Alwyn...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 25, 2023 | Briefing
OPPONENTS of Indigenous rights in Brazil have suffered a major setback after the Supreme Court rejected a proposal that threatened hundreds of Indigenous territories. The proposal was heavily pushed by the country’s powerful agribusiness industry, and aimed to...
