by Agency Reporter | Aug 5, 2022 | Briefing
SIX HUNDRED PEOPLE A DAY are joining growing waiting lists to be assessed for care and support in England, as adult social care buckles under unprecedented pressures. Almost 300,000 people are now waiting for an assessment of their needs by social workers, an increase...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 5, 2022 | Briefing
OVER 100 DELEGATES to the World Council of Churches (WCC) 11th Assembly from African churches gathered virtually during an Africa region pre-assembly on 29-30 July to pray, share, discern, reflect and prepare for the assembly, which will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 4, 2022 | Briefing
THE FIRST, EAGERLY AWAITED COMMERCIAL SHIPMENT OF GRAIN to leave the Ukrainian port of Odesa since Russia’s invasion more than five months ago, was cleared to proceed to Lebanon on Wednesday, after a scheduled inspection stopover in Istanbul. In line with the...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 4, 2022 | Briefing
THE INSTITUTE FOR FiSCAL STUDIES (IFS) estimates that school spending per pupil in England fell by nine per cent in real-terms between 2009 and 2010 In the 2019 and 2021 Spending Review, the government allocated extra funding to schools and explicitly stated that...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 3, 2022 | Briefing
The LGA, which represents more than 350 councils in England and Wales, warns that the scheme is becoming unsustainable, with councils struggling to rebuild homes as quickly as they are being sold. The size of the discounts available were increased in April 2012, and...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 3, 2022 | Briefing
TEN YEARS SINCE THE FIRST TENTS WERE PITCHED in Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan, almost 82,000 Syrian refugees are still living there, facing increasing precarity as shrinking incomes, rising prices and spiralling debt drive them further into poverty. Over the past...
