by Agency Reporter | Feb 21, 2024 | Briefing
THE overwhelming majority of zero-hours contract workers are “stuck” on zero hours contracts in the long-term, the TUC has warned. The union body says that hundreds of thousands of workers are being trapped in low-pay and insecurity, with bad employers “parking...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 20, 2024 | Briefing
THE UK Government has agreed to bring in new safeguards which would protect journalists from having confidential journalistic material, such as their communications with sources, easily accessed by state bodies, following a seven-year legal challenge from human rights...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 19, 2024 | Briefing
AGENDA ALLIANCE has discovered that growing numbers of Black Caribbean girls were excluded or suspended from school during 2021/22. Data obtained from the UK Department of Education via Freedom of Information requests has found that in the 2021/22 academic year, girls...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 19, 2024 | Briefing
AN UNPRECEDENTED number of countries and international organisations are expected to participate in the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) oral hearings on Israel’s occupation, beginning today (19 February 2024)says Human Rights Watch. Fifty-two countries and...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 18, 2024 | Briefing
WITH growing frustration at the Prime Minister referring to plans to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda as being “The Will of the People”, Hurst Methodist Church in Kingsley, Cheshire has decided to challenge the government’s rhetoric. Hurst Methodist has been raising...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 17, 2024 | Briefing
HORRIFIED at the imminent closure of the crucial Inter Faith Network (IFN), Quakers are urging the government to reconsider its funding withdrawal. On 7 February, the board of the IFN agreed they must move towards closure in two weeks unless the UK government...
