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Homes For Ukraine Scheme Faces A 'Crisis' As Quarter Of Hosts Plan To Quit
Homes For Ukraine Scheme Faces A "Crisis" As Quarter Of Hosts Plan To Quit
Communities
Shadow communities secretary Lisa Nandy has accused ministers of "clocking off" from the Homes for Ukraine scheme during the Tory leadership campaign, as many early arrivals near the end of its six-month term.
Money Expert Compares Energy Crisis Inaction To UK 'Watching European Hospital Beds Fill Up' With Covid
Economy
Money Expert Compares Energy Crisis Inaction To UK "Watching European Hospital Beds Fill Up" With Covid
Conservative Anti-Racism Group Tells Liz Truss And Rishi Sunak To Ditch Divisive “Culture Wars”
Political parties
Conservative Anti-Racism Group Tells Liz Truss And Rishi Sunak To Ditch Divisive “Culture Wars”
Ukrainian Refugees In The UK Could Face Homelessness When Six Months With Hosts Ends
Foreign affairs
Ukrainian Refugees In The UK Could Face Homelessness When Six Months With Hosts Ends
Ukraine Refugee Matching Groups Warn Pool Of UK Hosts Has Plummeted
Communities
Ukraine Refugee Matching Groups Warn Pool Of UK Hosts Has Plummeted
Government's Rwanda Plan Failing To Deter Migrant Crossings, MPs Say
Home affairs
Government's Rwanda Plan Failing To Deter Migrant Crossings, MPs Say
Benefit Delays For Ukrainian Refugees Leave British Families Turning To Crowdfunding
Foreign affairs
Benefit Delays For Ukrainian Refugees Leave British Families Turning To Crowdfunding
The House Live
Equality watchdog: Millions may be digital natives, but how many is AI leaving behind? Partner content
Communities
By Equality and Human Rights Commission
Equality watchdog: Millions may be digital natives, but how many is AI leaving behind?
Who cares? How the outsourcing of provision for looked after children is not fit for purpose
Social affairs
By Martin Barrow
Who cares? How the outsourcing of provision for looked after children is not fit for purpose
The “most draconian laws in the world”: Women’s Health Strategy all but silent on abortion
Health
By Alexandra Ming
The “most draconian laws in the world”: Women’s Health Strategy all but silent on abortion
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Price Of Bread, Cheese, Milk And Biscuits Is About To Soar
Price Of Bread, Cheese, Milk And Biscuits Is About To Soar
Environment
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Ukrainian Refugees In The UK Could Face Homelessness When Six Months With Hosts Ends
Foreign affairs
Ukrainian Refugees In The UK Could Face Homelessness When Six Months With Hosts Ends
Exclusive: Local leaders have issued an urgent call to government to provide further support for Ukrainian refugees living in the UK as early arrivals near the end of the six month period in which their hosts were required to support them under the government's Homes for Ukraine scheme.
Counties need the same attention as cities for levelling up to succeed
Economy
By Ben Bradley MP
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.
Seismic US Abortion Ban Renews Calls To Get Northern Ireland Services Up And Running
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.
Social Affairs news
The Chris Boardman Interview: Ending the culture war around cycling
Health
By James Wilmore
The Chris Boardman Interview: Ending the culture war around cycling
Three decades on from winning Olympic gold, cyclist Chris Boardman has a new national challenge – getting us out of our cars and onto our bikes.
LGBTQ rights and the Qatar World Cup
Culture
By Sheila Amedodah
LGBTQ rights and the Qatar World Cup
The Qatar World Cup raises a question of how the Football Association can reconcile championing LGBTQ rights with participation in a tournament where homosexuality is illegal.
More funding needed to help early years bounce back from Covid, experts warn
Education
By Tom Hunter
More funding needed to help early years bounce back from Covid, experts warn
There are children starting school who “don’t know how to eat, don’t know how to sit still… some even still in nappies, they don’t know how to respond to their own name, even”.
How can we support the 10 million people who suffer from migraine? Partner content
Coronavirus
By AbbVie
How can we support the 10 million people who suffer from migraine?
In the latest in our new series on improving care for people with long-term health conditions, Dods Impact and AbbVie explore how fixing the ‘broken care pathway’ can help support the 10 million people in the UK who suffer from migraines
We still have a long way to go to end HIV stigma
Health
By Martyn Butler OBE
We still have a long way to go to end HIV stigma
This week marks 40 years since Terry Higgins died of an Aids-related illness and his partner Rupert Whitaker and I set about founding an organisation in his honour to prevent what happened to him and is happening to untold others.
Stick or twist? Looming review fuels debate about gambling regulation
Communities
By Sheila Amedodah
Stick or twist? Looming review fuels debate about gambling regulation
The government’s plan to update regulations for gambling must balance campaigners’ calls for more stringent safeguards and stakeholders’ warnings that additional measures could stifle the industry and fuel black market betting.
The Rundown: Overturning Of Roe Vs Wade Exposes UK Abortion Law's Fragility
Social affairs
The Rundown: Overturning Of Roe Vs Wade Exposes UK Abortion Law's Fragility
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.
Roe Vs Wade Shows Now Is Finally Time To Decriminalise Abortion In The UK, Says Veteran Campaigner
Social affairs
Roe Vs Wade Shows Now Is Finally Time To Decriminalise Abortion In The UK, Says Veteran Campaigner
A veteran abortion campaigner has called on the government to use the overturning of the legal right to terminations in America as the catalyst to finally fully decriminalise the procedure in the UK.
Boosting funding to community pharmacies would help ease the NHS backlog
Health
By Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Boosting funding to community pharmacies would help ease the NHS backlog
A funding squeeze and workforce shortages are threatening to hold back community pharmacies from expanding.
How advertising is addressing uncomfortable truths about its own industry Partner content
Education
By Advertising Association
How advertising is addressing uncomfortable truths about its own industry

The Advertising Association has recognised the media companies and ad agencies driving real change in diversity and inclusion, as the industry sets out the next phase of its All In action plan, which was showcased in Parliament last week.
This must be a turning point to overhaul children’s social care in England
Social affairs
By Tim Loughton MP, Steve McCabe MP and Baroness Tyler
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.
Partner content
Social affairs
By Betting And Gaming Council
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 Partner content
Health
By AbbVie
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
Partner content
Education
By Lloyds Banking Group
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.
Carers should have the right to one week unpaid leave to help them stay in work
Social affairs
By Baroness Pitkeathley
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.
Partner content
Culture
By Advertising Association
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
We only went to watch football: an eyewitness account of the Champions League final chaos
Social affairs
By Andrew Mitchell
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. 
Betting and Gaming Industry unites to announce Safer Gambling Week 2022 and pledge to build on last year's record-breaking success Partner content
Social affairs
By Betting And Gaming Council
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.
It’s time the government step up to support kinship care
Social affairs
By Alex Cunningham MP
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”.
Partner content
Economy
By Betting And Gaming Council
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.
Rules preventing women inheriting hereditary peerages should be changed
Social affairs
By Harriett Baldwin MP
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.
Minister Says People Should Work More Hours Or Get A “Better Paid Job” To Beat Cost Of Living Crisis
Social affairs
Minister Says People Should Work More Hours Or Get A “Better Paid Job” To Beat Cost Of Living Crisis
A government minister has said that people struggling with the cost of living crisis should work more hours in order to overcome financial difficulty.
Will replacing the Human Rights Act make it harder to access justice?
Social affairs
By Chaminda Jayanetti
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
Government Accused Of Endangering LGBT Lives With Conversion Therapy “Consent Loophole”
Social affairs
Government Accused Of Endangering LGBT Lives With Conversion Therapy “Consent Loophole”
The government has reiterated a pledge to “ban” conversion therapy in today's Queen's speech, but a loophole creates an exception to the ban if it is believed that adults "consent" to the practice.

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