by Agency Reporter | Sep 21, 2023 | Briefing
FAIR taxes on the UK’s biggest polluters – namely fossil fuel companies and the extremely rich – could have raised up to £23 billion last year, according to a new report published by Oxfam. This finance could be used for much needed climate action such as expanding...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 21, 2023 | Briefing
OLDER private renters are in the midst of a housing emergency as unaffordable rent increases stretch budgets to breaking point, says older people’s financial hardship charity Independent Age. Research for its new report, Hidden Renters: The unseen faces of the rising...
by Staff Writer | Sep 20, 2023 | Briefing
THIS week (18-23 September) is Right To Food Week, a national week of action designed to increase awareness of food insecurity in the UK, and to promote the demand for a Right to Food. The campaign aims to make access to food a legal right for all in the UK. At the...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 20, 2023 | Briefing
A GROUP of leading charities, lawyers, care experienced children and young adults have worked together to produce a new guide for lawyers, Dare to Care. Care experienced children are up to six times more likely to be criminalised than other children. In 2022, one per...
by Staff Writer | Sep 19, 2023 | Briefing
SCHOOLS in England are reeling in the face of rising child poverty, with a large majority of staff (79 per cent) reporting that they and their colleagues are increasingly having to divert from their allocated roles to deal with its impact, a survey by the Education...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 19, 2023 | Briefing
AUTHORITIES across the world are increasingly resorting to unlawful use of force and repressive legislation to crush protests, Amnesty International said as it launched an interactive digital map that exposes the shocking rise in the repression of protesters by...
