by Agency Reporter | Jul 29, 2021 | Briefing
NEW RESEARCH FROM SHELTER reveals the shocking scale of overcrowding in England, with over 1.5 million people forced to live in overcrowded social homes. This has increased by 44 per cent in the last five years (representing an extra 467,000 people). One in six...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 29, 2021 | Briefing
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTÓNIO GUTTERES has warned that Inefficient global food production is at the root of a huge rise in hunger as well as one-third of all emissions and 80 per cent of biodiversity loss. Speaking at the Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit in...
by Staff Writer | Jul 28, 2021 | Briefing
MPs HAVE BEEN URGED to change the law so that sexual abuse and rape cases in the armed forces are tried in civilian courts. This follows the publication by the Defence Sub-Committee on Women in the Armed Forces of its report, Protecting Those Who Protect Us: Women in...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 28, 2021 | Briefing
THE SOCIAL MARKET FOUNDATION think-tank (SMF) has found that 76 per cent of London businesses think that at least some of their employees have direct experience of poverty. In an SMF survey of 500 employers, a quarter of firms said poverty is demoralising the whole...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 27, 2021 | Briefing
THE COURT OF APPEAL in England is to hear an appeal brought by the UK Government against single mother Nichola Salvato, who won her claim against the requirement for working parents to provide proof of payment before they can receive Universal Credit childcare...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 27, 2021 | Briefing
THE UK GOVERNMENT should pause any further extensions of permitted development rights (PDRs) for change of use to residential, and conduct a review of the role of such PDRs in the wider planning system in England, says the Housing, Communities and Local Government...
