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The Rundown: Overturning Of Roe Vs Wade Exposes UK Abortion Law's Fragility

01 Jul Social affairs

The Labour peer Baroness Hayter and Katherine O'Brien from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service join PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst and Adam Payne for this week’s episode to discuss the reverberations of the US Supreme Court's overturning of Roe Vs Wade, meaning abortion is now banned or severely restricted in a number of American states.

01 Jul Social affairs

Roe Vs Wade Shows Now Is Finally Time To Decriminalise Abortion In The UK, Says Veteran Campaigner

25 Jun Social affairs

Seismic US Abortion Ban Renews Calls To Get Northern Ireland Services Up And Running

16 May Social affairs

Minister Says People Should Work More Hours Or Get A “Better Paid Job” To Beat Cost Of Living Crisis

10 May Social affairs

Government Accused Of Endangering LGBT Lives With Conversion Therapy “Consent Loophole”

01 May Political parties

Kwasi Kwarteng Says "Bad Apples" To Blame For Sexism In Westminster

16 Apr Foreign affairs

Hundreds Of Civil Servants Drafted To Home Office In A Scramble To Clear Ukraine Refugee Visa Backlog

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28 Jun Health

Boosting funding to community pharmacies would help ease the NHS backlog

28 Jun Economy

Counties need the same attention as cities for levelling up to succeed

How advertising is addressing uncomfortable truths about its own industry

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27 Jun Education

How advertising is addressing uncomfortable truths about its own industry

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28 Jun Economy

Counties need the same attention as cities for levelling up to succeed

If we are to be successful in levelling up the country, putting powers in the hands of local communities coupled with ambitious levels of investment for those places, will go a long way to delivering this aim.

25 Jun Social affairs

Seismic US Abortion Ban Renews Calls To Get Northern Ireland Services Up And Running

The decision by the US Supreme Court to reverse that country’s legal right to abortion has renewed focus on the lack of abortion provision in Northern Ireland where women still cannot access services locally, despite a law passed more than two years ago.

31 May Social affairs

We only went to watch football: an eyewitness account of the Champions League final chaos

What started as a Champions League final, a battle on the pitch for the most famous trophy in club football between two heavyweights, ended as a battle for truth. As the fans queued outside, the lies had already begun by the French authorities.

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22 Jun Social affairs

This must be a turning point to overhaul children’s social care in England

The publication of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care in England in May was an important milestone for an area of social policy that is close to our hearts.

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20 Jun Social affairs

Top charities to share £1.2 million after bookies donate profits from flagship race

Some of the UK’s top charities have landed a huge donation after bookies handed over all their profits from a flagship race.

How innovation can help ease the devastating impact of macular disease

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20 Jun Health

How innovation can help ease the devastating impact of macular disease

In the first of our new series on improving care for people with long-term health conditions, Dods Impact and AbbVie explore how improving Digital and Virtual Outpatient Services can help the 1.5 million people losing their sight as a result of macular disease

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15 Jun Education

Insta-scam: how scammers are targeting younger users online

Scammers are deviously adaptable. From targeted phone-calls to vulnerable people, to phishing emails to online shoppers, there’s always a new kind of hustle being developed.

14 Jun Social affairs

Carers should have the right to one week unpaid leave to help them stay in work

The Conservative Party Manifesto for the 2019 general election contained a pledge to introduce a right to one week’s unpaid leave for carers.

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14 Jun Culture

FIRST WAVE OF ALL IN CHAMPIONS ANNOUNCED

Qualifying companies have provided evidence that they are championing All In’s work and have adopted the first six actions from its Action Plan

Betting and Gaming Industry unites to announce Safer Gambling Week 2022 and pledge to build on last year's record-breaking success

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26 May Social affairs

Betting and Gaming Industry unites to announce Safer Gambling Week 2022 and pledge to build on last year's record-breaking success

This year’s Safer Gambling Week event will run from 17th – 23rd October 2022 and will see the whole industry coming together in a concerted effort to further promote safer gambling messages, the tools available to customers to stay in control and the help and support available to those who champion higher standards.

23 May Social affairs

It’s time the government step up to support kinship care

For too long we have been failing kinship carers. The thousands of grandparents, aunties, uncles, siblings and friends raising children when their parents are unable to – the “silent and unheard majority in the children’s social care system”.

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23 May Economy

Nearly two-thirds of punters warn that forcing limits on their betting will drive them to the black market

Latest polling by YouGov found nearly two thirds of punters (65%) believe there is a large or substantial risk that setting limits on the amount of money spent on betting would drive more people to the unsafe, unregulated black market online. Polling also found almost 56 per cent of punters thought the Government should not set limits on how much money they could bet.

19 May Social affairs

Rules preventing women inheriting hereditary peerages should be changed

We are blessed to live in a new Elizabethan era; an era in which Her Majesty has long reigned over us and we celebrate her Platinum Jubilee with true devotion. In 2013, Royal Assent was given to the Succession to the Crown Act, ending the system of male heirs automatically inheriting the throne over female heirs.

13 May Social affairs

Will replacing the Human Rights Act make it harder to access justice?

The government is running a consultation on its proposals to revise the Human Rights Act and replace it with a Bill of Rights. Chaminda Jayanetti argues the plans do not take into account just how hard it is to access justice across the UK

03 May Communities

Rent Strike: How low-income tenants face hard choices over how to make up housing benefit shortfalls

Tenants on low incomes in private housing face rent shortfalls of hundreds of pounds a year after the government froze housing benefit for a second year running, amounting to a real-terms benefit cut in most of England as living costs soar.

01 May Social affairs

The Secret Caseworker: "My pay has not increased in line with my workload"

As the first port of call for constituency matters somewhere in the south of England, the Secret Caseworker takes us through a typically gruelling day

29 Apr Culture

Extra Time: How Tracey Crouch can save football

The tripwires for Tracey Crouch’s excellent Fan-Led Review of Football Governance were the vain-glorious announcement of the “European Super League”, the collapse of Bury FC and near-insolvency of 45 other clubs, the pandemic and, of course, a Conservative manifesto commitment likely to figure in the Queen’s Speech.

Air pollution is a problem we can solve - but the Government must show ambition in the Environment Act

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28 Apr Health

Air pollution is a problem we can solve - but the Government must show ambition in the Environment Act

If the Government is serious about addressing health inequality, it must set ambitious targets for clean air.

26 Apr Home affairs

The government needs to introduce new 'spiking' criminal offence to keep people safe

Last year, when reports emerged of a new and sinister form of spiking, where victims were being injected with unknown substances, there was understandable concern. The Home Affairs Select Committee recently held hearings on the issue and have published recommendations.

25 Apr Foreign affairs

As a refugee myself, I welcome the government's Rwanda plan

As one of the 28,000 Ugandan Asian refugees who fled to the United Kingdom 50 years ago from the brutal dictator Idi Amin, I am aware of the struggle faced by those fleeing persecution, and want to do what I can to help protect the rights of asylum seekers.

25 Apr Foreign affairs

Why ‘Homes for Ukraine’ but banishment for everyone else?

Whatever your views about people crossing the Channel to seek asylum in the UK, we can agree that the 70 per cent of those people who are recognised as refugees have overcome enormous dangers to reach the UK.

21 Apr Social affairs

The government is boosting take-up of Pension Credit – and our parliamentary colleagues can help us

Claims for Pension Credit were up 30 per cent in 2021 compared with 2019. It provides a massive financial boost to vulnerable pensioners. As well as putting extra money directly in pensioners’ pockets, it also opens up access to other benefits, such as help with rent and council tax, heating bills, free NHS dental care and free TV licenses for the over-75s.

Later life matters: The case for an Older People’s Commissioner for England

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20 Apr Health

Later life matters: The case for an Older People’s Commissioner for England

The State of Ageing 2022, a new comprehensive review of public data by the Centre for Ageing Better, shines a light on people’s worsening experiences of growing older in England and strengthens calls for an Older People’s Commissioner.

17 Apr Economy

Rishi Sunak needs to step out of his ivory tower and see what real poverty in Britain looks like

I wonder if Rishi Sunak has any real idea about what it is like to be poor. Does he think it means people are going to skip their holiday this year? Buy all their clothes at the charity shop? Maybe decide to give up going to the pub once a week?

16 Apr Economy

Lord Norman Lamont: 'There is very little the Chancellor can do'

Lord Lamont knows better than most the challenges of navigating an economic crisis. With reports the government is being urged to appoint the ex-chancellor as part of a task force to tackle the current cost of living crunch, John Johnston gets the benefit of his experience

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12 Apr Economy

Charities the big winners after the BGC MP Grand National charity bet

Charities up and down the country are in the money after bookies donated thousands to charities after MPs from around the country joined in the Grand National action by placing charity bets.

08 Apr Defence

Priti Patel Has Apologised For "Frustrating" Delays To Ukraine Refugee Visa Scheme

Home Secretary Priti Patel has apologised for delays to the Ukraine visa scheme as data reveals fewer than 3% of applicants have arrived in the UK.

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06 Jul 2022

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Ethnic Minorities into Leadership Leeds

Can departmental data sharing really transform citizen services?

12 Jul 2022

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Can departmental data sharing really transform citizen services?

Financing the reinvention of affordable housing

19 Jul 2022

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Financing the reinvention of affordable housing

20 Jul 2022

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