by Agency Reporter | Nov 3, 2022 | Briefing
THINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN SO BAD, the leader of England’s social services directors has warned, in a desperate plea to the Government to get a grip as adult social care enters the most challenging winter it has ever faced. A “staggering” number of people are not getting...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 3, 2022 | Briefing
A DECISION ON WHETHER OR NOT to grant planning permission for a controversial new coal mine in Cumbria has been delayed for a third time and is now due to be made on or before 8 December 2022. Friends of the Earth received a letter from the government confirming the...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 2, 2022 | Briefing
A BLUEPRINT FOR A SENSIBLE FISCAL PLAN which could stabilise the economy, secure public services, and begin to improve the long-term health of the economy has been published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Amid the cost-of-living crisis, during...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 2, 2022 | Briefing
HM INSPECTORATE OF PRISONS has published its report on an unannounced inspection of the short-term holding facilities at Western Jet Foil, Lydd Airport and Manston by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (25–28 July 2022) Manston is a non-residential facility designed to...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 1, 2022 | Briefing
PROMINENT CHILDREN’S RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS have explained how the youngest in society were not considered adequately or “even at all” in many key decisions made by the UK government during their Covid-19 response. As module two of the Covid-19 Inquiry began on 31...
by Agency Reporter | Nov 1, 2022 | Briefing
THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT has announced new requirements on multinational corporations to publicly disclose their country by country reporting, a type of reporting method designed to expose and deter multinational corporations from shifting their profits to tax...