by Agency Reporter | May 14, 2021 | Briefing
MORE THAN 35,000 PUPILS IN THE NORTH EAST of England who live below the poverty line do not qualify for free school meals under current legislation. A new report, The Cost of Missing Lunchtime, by Children North East, Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) and the North...
by Agency Reporter | May 14, 2021 | Briefing
SAVE THE CHILDREN HAS OFFICIALLY INTERVENED in a ground-breaking climate change case before the European Court of Human Rights as a third-party. Stemming from the deadly 2017 wildfires in Portugal, four children and two young adults from the fire-hit region have taken...
by Agency Reporter | May 13, 2021 | Briefing
THE TRUSSELL TRUST HAS PUBLISHED State of Hunger 2021, a follow-up to the most authoritative piece of independent research into hunger in the UK to date. Commissioned by the charity and conducted by Heriot-Watt University, the study sheds light on the groups of people...
by Staff Writer | May 13, 2021 | Briefing
THE CHAIRS OF TWO PROMINENT CATHOLIC ORGANISATIONS have written an open letter to Cardinal Vincent Nichols, calling on him to publicly denounce the violent attacks on worshippers that have taken place in Sheikh Jarrah, the Al Aqsa Mosque and Haram al Sharifs. Paul...
by Agency Reporter | May 12, 2021 | Briefing
CHRISTIAN AID HAS RESPONDED with shock and dismay to the violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. William Bell, Christian Aid’s head of Middle East, said: “The images of violence in Jerusalem and elsewhere in the region are shocking and tragic. This...
by Agency Reporter | May 12, 2021 | Briefing
THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS (TUC) has accused the UK Government of rowing back on its promise to boost workers’ rights, after ministers failed to include an employment bill in the Queen’s Speech. In 2019, the government promised that it would bring forward a new...
