by Agency Reporter | Jul 19, 2021 | Briefing
THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 has left pupils with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) attending special schools and colleges in England around four months behind in academic development and five months behind with their wider development. This is according to new...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 18, 2021 | Briefing
LUTHERAN CHURCHES IN Colombia, Indonesia and Namibia have launched new reports reviewing their countries’ performance toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) At a webinar on 14 July, held as a side event to the UN’s High-Level...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 17, 2021 | Briefing
NEW RESEARCH PUBLISHED BY THE TUC (produced by Landman Economics) finds that over a million children of key workers in England are currently living in poverty. The research, which used the government definition for key workers, found that in some regions more than a...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 17, 2021 | Briefing
THE UK HAS SOLD over £20 billion worth of military equipment and services to Saudi Arabia since 2015, according to a new report by Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT). This is almost three times higher than the £6.7 billion worth of arms sales published by the...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 16, 2021 | Briefing
NEW OFFICIAL FIGURES show the number of families affected by the two-child limit in universal credit and tax credits jumped by 67,000 in the year to April 20201 to reach 318,000. 1.1 million children are now affected by the policy, up from 900,000 in April 2020. The...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 16, 2021 | Briefing
INTRODUCING A LEVY FOR FREQUENT FLYERS would make post-pandemic holidays cheaper for the UK’s poorest households and raise £5bn a year for the Treasury, according to research from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and the climate charity, Possible. The report finds...
