by Agency Reporter | Jun 9, 2023 | Briefing
FAITH LEADERS are urging the Scottish Government to provide free bus passes for asylum seekers. The Scottish Religious Leaders Forum say that extending schemes already in place for people aged 5-22 and 60 plus would be a humane, just and life changing response to help...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 9, 2023 | Briefing
CHRISTIAN AID has renewed its emergency humanitarian appeal for Ukraine after devastating floods forced thousands of people to leave their homes when the Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed. The full impact of rising water along both sides of the frontline Dnipro River...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 8, 2023 | Briefing
MORE THAN 250,000 people in Northern Ireland have suffered negative impacts on their health as a result of providing unpaid care for a sick or disabled family member, new research published for Carers Week 2023 has shown. In a poll from YouGov, nearly one in three...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 8, 2023 | Briefing
UNITED NATIONS child rights experts have called on the UK to stop recruiting children into the armed forces. Quakers in Britain have backed the demand, having long called on the UK government to end the practice of recruiting 16-year-olds into the military, a...
by Staff Writer | Jun 7, 2023 | Briefing
A NATIONAL funding stream that has been supporting hundreds of community suicide prevention projects across England is coming to an end. Samaritans is therefore calling on the UK Government to use its new national suicide prevention strategy to restore this funding,...
by Staff Writer | Jun 7, 2023 | Briefing
THE Independent Food Aid Network has welcomed the ‘cash-first’ approach to tackling food insecurity at the heart of the Scottish Government’s new plan to reduce the need for people to turn to food banks. The plan, published on 5 June, is underpinned by human...
