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Vulnerable people still living in unsafe supported housing in England two years after law was passed
People are dying in unsafe accommodation and communities are being irreversibly damaged due to delays to a new law to clamp down on unregulated supported housing
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People are dying in unsafe accommodation and communities are being irreversibly damaged due to delays to a new law to clamp down on unregulated supported housing
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Vulnerable people still living in unsafe supported housing in England two years after law was passed
Charities and MP Bob Blackman urge government to implement law to tackle scandal of ‘exempt’ accommodation
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December 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Vulnerable people still living in unsafe supported housing in England two years after law was passed
People are dying in unsafe accommodation and communities are being irreversibly damaged due to delays to a new law to clamp down on unregulated supported housing
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
People are dying in unsafe accommodation and communities are being irreversibly damaged due to delays to a new law to clamp down on unregulated supported housing
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
some patients are having to be given end-of-life care in A&E corridors.
The bleak assessment is likely to be echoed in other NHS regions as building winter pressures increase the challenge of trying to find hospital beds for sick patients needing care.
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The bleak assessment is likely to be echoed in other NHS regions as building winter pressures increase the challenge of trying to find hospital beds for sick patients needing care.
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Hospitals warned end-of-life care crisis threatening treatment
A rising number of patients in hospitals could affect the level of treatment carried out this winter, a group of regional NHS leaders have been told.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
some patients are having to be given end-of-life care in A&E corridors.
The bleak assessment is likely to be echoed in other NHS regions as building winter pressures increase the challenge of trying to find hospital beds for sick patients needing care.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The bleak assessment is likely to be echoed in other NHS regions as building winter pressures increase the challenge of trying to find hospital beds for sick patients needing care.
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‘No one should be getting rich off the backs of vulnerable children’
The children’s commissioner for England is calling for radical investment to stop the profiteers who have turned the vital care of young people into a gold rush
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The children’s commissioner for England is calling for radical investment to stop the profiteers who have turned the vital care of young people into a gold rush
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Rachel de Souza: ‘No one should be getting rich off the b...
The children’s commissioner for England is calling for radical investment to stop the profiteers who have turned the vital care of young people into a gold rush
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December 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
‘No one should be getting rich off the backs of vulnerable children’
The children’s commissioner for England is calling for radical investment to stop the profiteers who have turned the vital care of young people into a gold rush
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The children’s commissioner for England is calling for radical investment to stop the profiteers who have turned the vital care of young people into a gold rush
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Concerns about ageing society ignore huge opportunities, says population expert
Sarah Harper says society must create new ways of living and working amid potential ‘silver economy’
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Sarah Harper says society must create new ways of living and working amid potential ‘silver economy’
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Concerns about ageing society ignore huge opportunities, says population expert
Sarah Harper says society must create new ways of living and working amid potential ‘silver economy’
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December 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Concerns about ageing society ignore huge opportunities, says population expert
Sarah Harper says society must create new ways of living and working amid potential ‘silver economy’
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Sarah Harper says society must create new ways of living and working amid potential ‘silver economy’
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UK’s industrial regions face ‘entrenched disadvantages’ going back decades
Social mobility report highlights ‘extreme regional differences’ in terms of childhood, jobs, innovation and growth
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Social mobility report highlights ‘extreme regional differences’ in terms of childhood, jobs, innovation and growth
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UK’s industrial regions face ‘entrenched disadvantages’ going back decades
Social mobility report highlights ‘extreme regional differences’ in terms of childhood, jobs, innovation and growth
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December 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
UK’s industrial regions face ‘entrenched disadvantages’ going back decades
Social mobility report highlights ‘extreme regional differences’ in terms of childhood, jobs, innovation and growth
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Social mobility report highlights ‘extreme regional differences’ in terms of childhood, jobs, innovation and growth
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Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds
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Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds
Scientists issue urgent warning about chemicals, found to cause cancer and infertility as well as harming environment
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December 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds
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NHS nursing staff in England are predicting a “devastating” corridor care winter for patients in hospitals in the coming months, as new analysis reveals 12hr+ trolley waits for sick patients are surging, increasing by almost 9000%, a 90-fold rise in just 6 years
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Corridor care surging in hospitals as nursing staff warn of ‘devastating’ winter ahead | Royal College of Nursing
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December 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
NHS nursing staff in England are predicting a “devastating” corridor care winter for patients in hospitals in the coming months, as new analysis reveals 12hr+ trolley waits for sick patients are surging, increasing by almost 9000%, a 90-fold rise in just 6 years
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An emergency food parcel will be provided every 10 seconds across the UK this winter
There were 740,000 emergency food parcels distributed across the UK between December 2024 and February this year, this was 40 per cent higher than pre-pandemic levels five years ago.
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There were 740,000 emergency food parcels distributed across the UK between December 2024 and February this year, this was 40 per cent higher than pre-pandemic levels five years ago.
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Food banks likely to hand out one emergency parcel every 10 seconds this winter | LBC
Around one in three (266,000) parcels handed out last winter went to children
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December 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
An emergency food parcel will be provided every 10 seconds across the UK this winter
There were 740,000 emergency food parcels distributed across the UK between December 2024 and February this year, this was 40 per cent higher than pre-pandemic levels five years ago.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/food...
There were 740,000 emergency food parcels distributed across the UK between December 2024 and February this year, this was 40 per cent higher than pre-pandemic levels five years ago.
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Cost of unregistered children's care homes a 'national scandal' - Ofsted
Nine in 10 councils across England are placing children in unregistered homes which can charge up to £30,000 a week per child.
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Nine in 10 councils across England are placing children in unregistered homes which can charge up to £30,000 a week per child.
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Cost of unregistered children's care homes a 'national scandal' - Ofsted
The Children's Homes Association says there is no clear national plan and government must 'fix the system'.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Cost of unregistered children's care homes a 'national scandal' - Ofsted
Nine in 10 councils across England are placing children in unregistered homes which can charge up to £30,000 a week per child.
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Nine in 10 councils across England are placing children in unregistered homes which can charge up to £30,000 a week per child.
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Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. So why do a third of its children live in poverty?
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Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. So why do a third of its children live in poverty? | CNN
Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. So why do a third of its children live in poverty?
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Some 380 hospice beds out of around 2,000 lie empty in England because of financial pressures, say bosses.
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Hundreds of hospice beds unused amid financial crisis - BBC News
Some 380 hospice beds lie empty in England because of financial pressures, say bosses.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Some 380 hospice beds out of around 2,000 lie empty in England because of financial pressures, say bosses.
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The problem of inequality has become so pressing that it needs coordinated global action to address it, a group of over 500 economists and scientists said today.
Inequality is a problem on the scale of climate change, say eminent economists
Leading economists have proposed a panel to address global inequality modelled on the UN’s climate body.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The problem of inequality has become so pressing that it needs coordinated global action to address it, a group of over 500 economists and scientists said today.
Private care providers in three English regions make £250m in three years
More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds
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More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds
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Private care providers in three English regions make £250m in three years
More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds
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November 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Private care providers in three English regions make £250m in three years
More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds
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More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds
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Reposted by Chris Lynch
New research from Z2K shows that a punitive benefits system pushes people away from work and harms the economy in the process.
How making the benefits system meaner has backfired
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November 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
New research from Z2K shows that a punitive benefits system pushes people away from work and harms the economy in the process.
Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future,' Bank of England chief says
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Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future,' Bank of England chief says
The bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said for nearly a decade he had been careful to "take no position on Brexit" but when asked directly about its impact on economic growth he "had to answer that ques...
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October 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future,' Bank of England chief says
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Britain’s living standards 'will fall behind former Communist nations' without major growth plan, economists warn
Ministers must refocus public spending on major infrastructure and defence projects to help “turbocharge” growth, experts say.
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Ministers must refocus public spending on major infrastructure and defence projects to help “turbocharge” growth, experts say.
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Britain’s living standards 'will fall behind former Communist nations' without major growth plan, economists warn | LBC
Ministers must refocus public spending on major infrastructure and defence projects to help “turbocharge” growth, experts say.
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October 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Britain’s living standards 'will fall behind former Communist nations' without major growth plan, economists warn
Ministers must refocus public spending on major infrastructure and defence projects to help “turbocharge” growth, experts say.
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Ministers must refocus public spending on major infrastructure and defence projects to help “turbocharge” growth, experts say.
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Housing designed to combat loneliness wins top architecture award
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Riba Stirling Prize 2025: Appleby Blue Almshouse named Britain's best new building
Appleby Blue Almshouse in London wins the Royal Institute of British Architects' Stirling Prize.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Housing designed to combat loneliness wins top architecture award
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Reposted by Chris Lynch
We’re concerned by new research by Mind showing an alarming rise in #MentalHealth #Stigma in England. Stigma blocks access, recovery, and dignity for people with mental health conditions. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/15/alarming-rise-in-mental-health-stigma-in-england-research-shows
October 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
We’re concerned by new research by Mind showing an alarming rise in #MentalHealth #Stigma in England. Stigma blocks access, recovery, and dignity for people with mental health conditions. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/15/alarming-rise-in-mental-health-stigma-in-england-research-shows
'The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.'
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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
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October 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
'The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.'
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More than 60,000 cancer patients in England ‘not getting necessary radiotherapy’
Exclusive: Analysis of NHS data by Radiotherapy UK also shows some patients face waits of up to six months
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Exclusive: Analysis of NHS data by Radiotherapy UK also shows some patients face waits of up to six months
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More than 60,000 cancer patients in England ‘not getting necessary radiotherapy’
Exclusive: Analysis of NHS data by Radiotherapy UK also shows some patients face waits of up to six months
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October 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
More than 60,000 cancer patients in England ‘not getting necessary radiotherapy’
Exclusive: Analysis of NHS data by Radiotherapy UK also shows some patients face waits of up to six months
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Exclusive: Analysis of NHS data by Radiotherapy UK also shows some patients face waits of up to six months
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Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains
Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’
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Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’
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Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains
Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’
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September 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains
Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’
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Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Living standards set to drop by 2030 with low-income families suffering the most, charity warns
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Living standards set to drop by 2030 with low-income families suffering the most, charity warns | LBC
Living standards are set to drop by 2030, with low-income families likely to suffer the most, new research shared exclusively with LBC shows.
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September 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Living standards set to drop by 2030 with low-income families suffering the most, charity warns
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Reposted by Chris Lynch
A single person in the UK now needs to earn £30,500 a year to “participate in society” and "live with dignity", new research has found.
Single people must earn at least £30,500 per year to live well in the UK
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September 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A single person in the UK now needs to earn £30,500 a year to “participate in society” and "live with dignity", new research has found.