by Staff Writer | May 24, 2022 | Briefing
THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF CHILDREN’S SOCIAL CARE has published its final report, calling for a fundamental reset of the system to improve the quality of life for children, their families, and those that have been in care The review says its recommendations seek...
by Agency Reporter | May 23, 2022 | Briefing
MEMBERS OF A GROUP OF 89 Sri Lankan adults and children, who have been detained for over seven months on a military base more than 1,500 miles from the mainland in the middle of the Indian Ocean, have gone on hunger strike in a desperate plea for help over their...
by Staff Writer | May 23, 2022 | Briefing
WERRINGTON, A YOUNG OFFENDERS INSTITUTION near Stoke-on-Trent, was found by HM Inspectorate of Prisons to have violence levels higher than any other establishment in England and Wales during the six months prior to inspection. Children told inspectors that they...
by Agency Reporter | May 22, 2022 | Briefing
INDONESIAN BISHOP TUHONI TELAUMBANUA knows well what it means to minister in the midst of a storm. He is from Nias island, off the west coast of North Sumatra in the Indian Ocean, a surfers’ paradise but also a place still recovering from the damage wreaked by the...
by Staff Writer | May 21, 2022 | Briefing
BILLION OF POUNDS OF PUBLIC MONEY will be lost to fraud and error as a result of the Government’s approach to its Covid-19 business support schemes, says the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in a new report. Despite providing important support to businesses...
by Agency Reporter | May 21, 2022 | Briefing
AN ESTIMATED 1.8 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS on universal credit (UC) are having to live on significantly less than they are entitled to because the DWP is deducting debt repayments from their benefits at an unaffordable rate, according to new Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)...
