by Agency Reporter | Sep 30, 2021 | Briefing
THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT has continued to deny its responsibility to protect its most vulnerable citizens from climate change, as detailed in its final reply to a human rights complaint brought by Indigenous Torres Strait / Zenadh Kes people. Its reply to the UN...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 30, 2021 | Briefing
THE GULF BETWEEN WHAT THE PUBLIC EXPECTS and what it actually gets, when it comes to adult social care, has been starkly illustrated in the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman’s latest annual review of complaints. Published on 29 September, the Ombudsman’s...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 29, 2021 | Briefing
ALMOST HALF OF ALL CHILDREN IN CUSTODY in England and Wales are being held on remand, despite the fact around two-thirds of children remanded to custody will not go on to receive a prison sentence. The number of children remanded to custody increased between 2017 and...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 29, 2021 | Briefing
NEW ANALYSIS PUBLISHED BY THE HEALTH FOUNDATION shows that while the waiting list for hospital care continues to grow, so too does the number of ‘missing’ patients who have not yet been added to the list. There were 7.5 million fewer people referred for routine...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 28, 2021 | Briefing
ONLY 10 PER CENT OF PEOPLE THINK THERE SHOULD BE A CUT to Universal Credit, according to new polling carried out by Opinium for the New Economics Foundation (NEF). New analysis from NEF also shows that, even before the effects of energy price increases, the UC cut...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 28, 2021 | Briefing
CHRISTIAN AID HAS PUBLISHED A REPORT ON THE DAMAGE that conventional farming is doing to the climate and soil systems upon which humanity relies. The report highlights how an increasingly intensive food system based on the use of synthetic chemical inputs such as...
