by Staff Writer | Sep 5, 2023 | Briefing
INDEPENDENT food banks are reporting a bleak picture of more and more people facing financial hardship and in need of their help. The latest survey from the Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) finds food bank managers deeply concerned about the growing number of...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 5, 2023 | Briefing
DEFENCE and Security Equipment International (DSEI), one of the world’s largest arms fairs, is taking place at the ExCeL centre in London between 12-15 September. Protests which began on 4 September will continue for two weeks, with the first week targeting the...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 4, 2023 | Briefing
EVERY English region is struggling to recruit childcare workers, according to new analysis by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), using Coram Family and Childcare data. Nearly all (95 per cent) of English councils who responded to a survey told Coram that childcare...
by Staff Writer | Sep 4, 2023 | Briefing
THE CHIEF INSPECTOR of Prisons wrote to the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor on 30 August to issue an Urgent Notification for improvement at HMP Woodhill, after an unannounced inspection found the prison was fundamentally unsafe. Staff at Woodhill...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 3, 2023 | Briefing
QUAKERS in Britain joined others to hand in a petition at 10 Downing Street urging prime minister Rishi Sunak to scrap the anti-boycott bill. Almost 18,000 peoplehave signed the petition against the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) bill. On 31...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 2, 2023 | Briefing
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people are being forcibly engaged by organised criminal gangs into online criminality in Southeast Asia, from romance-investment scams and crypto fraud to illegal gambling, a new report issued by the UN Human Rights Office shows. Victims face...
