by Agency Reporter | May 30, 2022 | Briefing
HOSPICES IN THE UK delivered ‘hospice at home’ services almost a million times during the pandemic as they sought to rapidly adapt to a seismic shift in where people died, an analysis by the Nuffield Trust reveals. The increasing number of people dying at home, seen...
by Agency Reporter | May 29, 2022 | Briefing
AT AN EVENT TO CELEBRATE THE CENTENARY of the opening of diplomatic relations between Albania and the United Kingdom, a new UK human rights charity working to eliminate human trafficking was launched. His Excellency, the Albanian Ambassador to the Court of St James,...
by Agency Reporter | May 28, 2022 | Briefing
DISABLED PEOPLE have spoken of how the UK Government’s benefits assessment process has left them feeling suicidal, in tears and in physical pain, in new research by anti-poverty charity Z2K. Participants in Z2K’s research described finding the benefits assessment...
by Agency Reporter | May 28, 2022 | Briefing
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HAS ACCUSED PRITI PATEL of “disastrous leadership” at the Home Office, after new immigration statistics showed another large increase to the backlog of outstanding asylum claims. The new figures, from the immigration quarterly statistics...
by Agency Reporter | May 27, 2022 | Briefing
OVERDUE STEPS TO PROTECT THE POOREST families from the impact of the cost of living crisis have been welcomed by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) but the organisation says more is needed, including making the temporary measures permanent to reflect...
by Agency Reporter | May 27, 2022 | Briefing
THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU) has commended President Joe Biden for taking action through an executive order which reforms a variety of policing practices. Udi Ofer, deputy national political director at the ACLU, issued the following statement on the...
