by Agency Reporter | Dec 10, 2022 | Briefing
NEW RESEARCH from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), in partnership with Reed, finds that just under half (47 per cent) of employers do not have an inclusion and diversity (I&D) strategy or action plan in place. A quarter (25 per cent)...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 10, 2022 | Briefing
INVESTING IN A UNIVERSAL GUARANTEE of affordable childcare for all families until the end of primary school has long been seen as a route to raising educational attainment, narrowing the gap for disadvantaged children and helping achieve equal pay for women. Now a new...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 9, 2022 | Briefing
RISHI SUNAK MUST ACT NOW to help prevent a huge humanitarian catastrophe in East Africa, three former Secretaries of State for International Development and the heads of the UK’s leading aid agencies have warned in a joint letter to the Prime Minister. Over 28 million...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 9, 2022 | Briefing
EUROPEAN UNION LAWMAKERS have concluded negotiations on a ground-breaking new regulation that will block products linked to deforestation from being sold on the EU market. ClientEarth lawyers have welcomed the outcome of the political agreement reached on the main...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 8, 2022 | Briefing
THE UK RISKS MAJOR EMBARRASSMENT on the world stage as the most important global meeting on biodiversity in decades – the fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity – starts in Canada, say the Wildlife Trusts. COP15 comes...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 8, 2022 | Briefing
QUAKERS HAVE BEEN ASKED to stop using the term ‘overseer’ because of its connotations of oppression and slavery. The term has been used since 1753 – a time when Quakers could be disowned by their meetings for ‘immoral’ conduct – to represent Quakers who provide...
