by Agency Reporter | Mar 16, 2024 | Briefing
CHILDREN in England with a parent in prison will have access to more support with the launch of a new, dedicated resource pack for English schools and educational settings. The new toolkit created by Pact (the Prison Advice and Care Trust) provides advice and...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 16, 2024 | Briefing
THE UK’s leading debt advice charities StepChange, Money Advice Trust, Citizens Advice, and Christians Against Poverty, alongside the Law Centres Network, have written to the Secretary of State responsible for Housing, Michael Gove, urging him to prioritise the...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 15, 2024 | Briefing
A coalition of organisations which has organised the national marches calling for a ceasefire in Gaza have released a statement in response to Michael Gove’s announcment of “an updated, more focused” definition of extremism. The statement reads: As...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 15, 2024 | Briefing
ADULT social care support continues to stagnate following a lack of action to reform the sector by successive governments, says The King’s Fund following the publication of its annual social care report. Social Care 360 highlights that adult requests for social care...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 14, 2024 | Briefing
A NEW report has found that inexperienced prison officers at HMP/YOI Hindley were struggling to manage a very challenging prison dominated by a “tsunami” of drugs, high levels of violence and self-harm and failing infrastructure. Hindley was facing serious staffing...
by Staff Writer | Mar 14, 2024 | Briefing
AROUND one in five children in Northern Ireland are living in relative poverty, before housing costs. A report published by Northern Ireland’s Comptroller and Auditor General, Dorinnia Carville, on 12 March also highlighted the fact that eight per cent of...
