by Agency Reporter | Sep 3, 2021 | Briefing
DESPITE THE UK GOVERNMENT ALLOCATING over £7 billion extra for schools in England in the 2019 Spending Round, core spending per pupil in 2022–23 will still be about one to two per cent lower in real terms than in 2009–10. School spending per pupil fell in England by...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 2, 2021 | Briefing
NEW POLLING, published in an IPPR Scotland report, reveals that people in Scotland are overwhelmingly supportive of the introduction of a four-day working week. In addition, the report finds that a shorter working week – in which workers’ hours are reduced...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 2, 2021 | Briefing
SERVICE STATIONS IN ALGERIA stopped providing leaded petrol in July, ending its global use. This development follows an almost two decades long campaign by the UNEP-led global Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV). Since 1922, the use of tetraethyllead as a...
by Staff Writer | Sep 1, 2021 | Briefing
FAITH COMMUNITIES, governments, international organisations, foundations, the private sector, and civil society organisations are essential in every response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organisation,...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 1, 2021 | Briefing
CHRISTIAN GROUPS FROM ACROSS THE UK will be marking Climate Sunday, including an ecumenical service in Glasgow Cathedral, which will be broadcast live on Sunday 5 September. With around two months to go until the city host the UN COP26 meeting, it will be a chance to...
by Agency Reporter | Sep 1, 2021 | Briefing
THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS (TUC) is calling on the UK Government to create four new public holidays, after workers enjoyed their last long weekend until Christmas. Workers in England and Wales get just eight bank holidays a year, which is much fewer than in other...
