by Agency Reporter | Jun 23, 2021 | Briefing
TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGNERS have warned that ministers are “on a mission to drive down standards and hand over power to transnational corporations”, as the UK begins talks to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 23, 2021 | Briefing
NEW FIGURES FROM THE DWP show the number of households subject to the benefit cap has jumped by 13 per cent since November, reaching 200,000 at February 2021. The households concerned are likely to have been capped because they have lost jobs or working hours to...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 23, 2021 | Briefing
AFFORDABLE, QUALITY CHILDCARE is inaccessible in many of the world’s wealthiest countries, UNICEF says in a new report. Luxembourg, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Germany rank the highest on childcare provisions among high-income countries. Slovakia, the United States,...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 22, 2021 | Briefing
SIX YOUNG CLIMATE ACTIVISTS, along with two major environmental organisations from Norway, are filing a historic application to bring the issue of Arctic oil drilling to the European Court of Human Rights. The environmentalists argue that, by allowing new oil drilling...
by Staff Writer | Jun 22, 2021 | Briefing
LEADERS OF ORGANISATIONS THAT REPRESENT adult social care in England have written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to urge the Government to act now on reform of England’s social care system and to publish its...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 21, 2021 | Briefing
THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION has responded to measures announced by the UK Government on 17 June 2021 and described as intended to strengthen Parliamentary oversight of the Electoral Commission. A spokeperson for the Commission said: “Parliamentary oversight and scrutiny...
