by Agency Reporter | Jul 30, 2022 | Briefing
NEW GOVERNMENT FIGURES released on 28 July show 74,230 households in England became homeless or were at imminent risk of becoming homeless between January and March 2022 – including 25,610 families with children. This represents an 11 per cent rise in three months,...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 29, 2022 | Briefing
POLICE IN ENGLAND AND WALES have recorded a welcome reduction in unnecessary arrests of women in recent years, but further work is needed to keep more women out of the criminal justice system, a cross-party panel of MPs and peers has found. A briefing published by the...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 29, 2022 | Briefing
TWO HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS have told a Tribunal that MI5 has continually breached surveillance laws for many years, resulting in the Home Secretary issuing unlawful bulk surveillance warrants. In a landmark case being heard this week (25-29 July 2022) by the...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 28, 2022 | Briefing
WITH INFLATION SET TO PEAK at its highest level for 40 years, a new report from the cross-party Work and Pensions Committee highlights how the deductions from benefits, usually taken to recover money owed for a variety of debts and advances, are pushing some people...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 28, 2022 | Briefing
THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITH LONG COVID (defined as reporting symptoms more than four weeks after infection) has been on the rise – with the latest ONS figures showing that there were almost 2 million people with the condition as of May 2022, around double the number a...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 27, 2022 | Briefing
THE LEADING THINK TANK FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND has published analysis showing that despite the rhetoric of the levelling up agenda, public spending on the North is lower, and has grown less since 2019, than in other parts of the country. Three years ago this week,...
