by Agency Reporter | Dec 23, 2023 | Briefing
COUNCILLOR Pete Marland, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Economy and Resources Board, has written to Laura Trott MP, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, on the future of the Household Support Fund (HSF). The HSF is money from central government...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 22, 2023 | Briefing
THE Food Foundation has published a briefing, funded by The Nuffield Foundation, that investigates food insecurity and inequalities experienced by disabled people. The Foundation has been conducting nationally representative surveys to monitor levels of food...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 22, 2023 | Briefing
NINE in ten people sleeping rough in England have experienced violence or abuse on the street, half have been physically attacked and one in five had someone urinate on or next to them. “The first thing that jumped into my mind was this: if I survive this night then...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 21, 2023 | Briefing
FIVE organisations representing NHS leaders and patients have jointly written to the Chair of the Council of the BMA and to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, expressing their concerns about the on-going industrial action within the NHS. The...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 21, 2023 | Briefing
BECOME, the leading national charity for children in care and young care leavers, is sounding the alarm on the numbers of children and young people being moved at Christmas. The charity is calling for “urgent and ambitious action to ensure children in care have...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 20, 2023 | Briefing
OVER the last six months, The Wildlife Trusts have conducted two nationwide surveys of their members and the wider public. While it was already known that there are nearly a million members of The Wildlife Trusts and, collectively, membership of the largest nature...
