by Agency Reporter | Feb 12, 2022 | Briefing
THE UK GOVERNMENT is proposing to change the legislation underlying the new £86,000 cap that people will have to pay towards their own social care costs in England. The amendment means that receipt of means-tested support to pay for care will not count towards the...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 11, 2022 | Briefing
A GROUP OF teaching unions has this week written to the UK Secretary of State for Education, Nadhim Zahawi, urging him to confirm that a directive issued to all Catholic voluntary aided schools in the Diocese of Hallam to join a multi-academy trust has no legal...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 11, 2022 | Briefing
UN HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS have urged Sweden not to issue a licence for an iron-ore mine in the Gállok region, home of the indigenous Sámi people, saying the open-pit mine will generate vast amounts of pollution and toxic waste, and endanger the protected ecosystem,...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 11, 2022 | Briefing
The Muslim Council of Britain is calling for an independent public inquiry into the Birmingham ‘Trojan Horse’ affair following damning revelations in a New York Times podcast by investigative journalists Hamza Syed and Brian Reed. The Trojan Horse affair centred...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 10, 2022 | Briefing
ICAN HAS LAUNCHED A REPORT revealing that the healthcare systems in ten major cities around the world would be overwhelmed by the immediate impact of the detonation of just one nuclear weapon. The study models the detonation of one 100-kiloton airburst nuclear...
by Staff Writer | Feb 10, 2022 | Briefing
A WOMEN’S PRISON has been assessed by HM Inspectorate of Prisons in England and Wales as poor for safety in a “rare and unexpected finding” during a recent inspection, which identified very high violence and self-harm and inadequate care for vulnerable women....
