by Agency Reporter | Jul 6, 2021 | Briefing
The Equality Trust has announced that How to Fight Inequality author Ben Phillips has transferred rights to all author royalties to them in support of their work to dismantle structural inequalities in the UK. This includes rights from sales of all versions of the...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 6, 2021 | Briefing
The mental health impact of the pandemic could have lasting repercussions for young people as they take their first steps on the career ladder, with over one-in-four 18-24-year olds afraid that poor mental health will affect their ability to find a job in future,...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 5, 2021 | Briefing
Amnesty International is urging MPs to oppose the controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in the House of Commons today (Monday 5 July), warning that the proposed legislation will severely curtail basic rights and will entrench racism and...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 5, 2021 | Briefing
RISING NUMBERS OF HOMELESS PEOPLE are being placed in bed and breakfast accommodation due to a severe shortage of housing, meaning councils are being forced to spend over five times as much money on accommodation as they were a decade ago, new analysis by the Local...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 4, 2021 | Briefing
BEING CUT OFF FROM CASH AND BANKING SERVICES is tantamount to being excluded from society, and is a risk for many more of us than is often assumed, warns Age UK in its new report, Short-changed: How the decline of cash is affecting older people. The charity says that...
by Agency Reporter | Jul 3, 2021 | Briefing
TRADE GROUPS representing the world’s biggest oil and chemical companies have been opposing a ground-breaking new proposal to regulate toxic and persistent chemicals in microplastics, according to documents obtained by Unearthed, Greenpeace UK’s investigative...
