by Agency Reporter | Jan 27, 2023 | Briefing
CHILDREN IN CUSTODY feel safer than ever before but are isolated from their friends and families and are continuing to receive inadequate education, a new report has found. Children in custody 2021–22 analysed survey data from every young offender institution (YOI)...
by Staff Writer | Jan 26, 2023 | Briefing
INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY was created on 27 January 2000, on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, when representatives from 46 governments, including the UK, met in Stockholm to discuss Holocaust remembrance,...
by Staff Writer | Jan 26, 2023 | Briefing
WITH OVER 3.5 MILLION PEOPLE aged 50-64 currently classified as ‘economically inactive’, Age UK is warning that any move to increase the State Pension Age (SPA), earlier or higher than currently planned, could have devastating consequences for millions of people in...
by Staff Writer | Jan 25, 2023 | Briefing
NEW DATA FROM HEALTHWATCH shows an increase in the number of people in England avoiding vital care for financial reasons. A tracker poll conducted with 2000 adults found that more people avoided getting prescription medicines, and booking NHS appointments, including...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 25, 2023 | Briefing
THE UK GOVERNMENT has announced that, for the third year in a row, it will permit the use of the banned pesticide thiamethoxam (a type of neonicotinoid) on sugar beet in England in 2023. A single teaspoon of neonicotinoid is enough to deliver a lethal dose to 1.25...
by Agency Reporter | Jan 24, 2023 | Briefing
A DISPUTE BETWEEN children’s rights advocates and the UK Government’s Department for Education over the meaning and importance of care could be resolved if ministers would listen and act on the views of 16 and 17 year-olds, campaigners say. An online survey...
