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November 29, 2020

National Audit Office report on managing flood risk

Very few of the homes better protected in 2019 were in deprived areas; the proportion rose from four per cent in 2011, to 29 per cent in 2014, but then declined to eight per cent in 2019.
November 28, 2020

Amazon putting workers' lives at risk during shopping rush, says Amnesty

In the UK, GMB Union staff have repeatedly been threatened with injunctions for 'trespassing' when trying to access Amazon facilities to recruit new members.
November 28, 2020

Spending review fails to deliver, say Quakers

The government's spending review has failed to deliver on Quaker priorities.
November 27, 2020

Church of England warned that religious selection of pupils can be racially discriminatory

Indirect racial discrimination leads to marginalised families accessing poorer performing schools and thus inhibits the life chances of their children, says the Accord Coalition.
November 27, 2020

Number of households subject to the benefit cap reaches 170,000

The cap should be suspended during the pandemic so the lowest income parents can meet their children‘s basic needs, says Child Poverty Action Group.
November 26, 2020

Unprecedented demand for social care with unpaid carers at breaking point

Tens of thousands of people are turning to social services for urgent help because of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on families and individuals with support needs, who are unable to cope any further on their own, or whose usual arrangements...
November 26, 2020

NAO report on the supply of PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Department for Health and Social Care created a Parallel Supply Chain which made orders worth £7 billion by the end of May 2020.
November 25, 2020

Spending Review: the key points

Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered his Spending Review earlier today.
November 25, 2020

Every £1 spent on union-led training pays almost £13 into the economy

The TUC is calling the on government to urgently rethink its proposal to axe the Union Learning Fund and to reinstate it in the Spending Review.
November 25, 2020

A generation of young women are 'paying the price' for pandemic

A major new report and polling from the Young Women’s Trust has found that an estimated 1.5 million young women have lost income since the start of the pandemic and over two thirds claiming benefits did so for the first time.

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