by Agency Reporter | Oct 30, 2023 | Briefing
THE largest independent providers of children’s social care made profits of more than £300 million last year, a new report commissioned by the Local Government Association reveals. It comes as councils face significant financial pressures in children’s services as a...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 29, 2023 | Briefing
AHEAD of an expected General Election next year, faith leaders from the UK and Africa have come together to urge the UK political parties, through an open letter, to commit to cancel the debts of low-income countries to prevent more communities falling into hunger and...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 28, 2023 | Briefing
STARVATION is being used as a weapon of war against civilians, Oxfam said as it renewed its call for food, water, fuel and other essentials to be allowed to enter the Gaza strip. The international agency analysed UN data and found that just two per cent of food that...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 28, 2023 | Briefing
SELF-HARM incidents in women’s jails have soared by almost two-thirds in the last year, with assaults and deaths in circumstances recorded as self-inflicted also on the rise across the prison system, official data seen by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveals. A...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 27, 2023 | Briefing
A damning new Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) research report highlights that there has been a “shameful increase” in the level of destitution in the UK, with a growing number of people struggling to afford to meet their most basic physical needs to stay warm, dry,...
by Agency Reporter | Oct 27, 2023 | Briefing
UK refugee charities have called on the Government to be ready to put in place emergency pathways for those seeking refuge from the conflict in the Middle East. The deepening crisis in Israel and Palestine has already cost thousands of lives and is exacerbating an...
