Helen Johnson

1 month ago | channel4.com | Helen Johnson

More than 3,500 children across England are currently at risk of child sexual exploitation (CSE), exclusive data obtained by FactCheck has found. How many children are currently at risk of child sexual exploitation? In England, more than 3,500 children have been identified as at risk of child sexual exploitation. Across the 78 out of 153 local authorities who replied to our Freedom of Information (FOI) requests with this information, 3,680 children are currently at risk of CSE.

Oct 17, 2024 | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Helen Johnson |Heather Lin |Yu Shen |Emilia J. Diego

IMPORTANCE: Patients should have an active role in decisions about pursuing or forgoing specific therapies in treatment de-escalation trials. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate longitudinal patient-reported outcomes (PROs) encompassing decisional comfort and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among patients who elected to enroll in a clinical trial evaluating radiotherapy alone, without breast surgery, for invasive breast cancers with exceptional response to neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NST).

Jun 7, 2024 | channel4.com | Georgina Lee |Helen Johnson

By Georgina Lee and Helen JohnsonRishi Sunak claimed several times in this week’s ITV Leaders’ debate that “there are £2,000 worth of tax rises coming for every working family in this country”. But does the figure add up? FactCheck takes a look. Did the Treasury calculate Labour would cost the taxpayer £38bn? The Conservatives claim that Labour party policies would add £38bn to public spending over the years 2025-26 to 2028-29.

May 29, 2024 | channel4.com | Helen Johnson

The government promised one million more homes in England by the end of the parliament and 300,000 a year by the mid-2020s. But has it met these targets? FactCheck takes a look. Has the Conservative government built a million new homes since the last election? The Conservatives promised in their 2019 manifesto that they would build “at least a million” new homes over their term in office – that is, between the last election and this one, also known as “the parliament”.

May 23, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Noam Vogt-Vincent |April J Burt |Helen Johnson

AbstractThe tropical southwest Indian Ocean is a coral biodiversity hotspot, with remote reefs physically connected by larval dispersal through eddies and a complex set of equatorial and boundary currents.