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3 weeks ago |
news.sky.com | Joely Santa Cruz
With record numbers of children in England now in insecure temporary housing, the commissioner warns that poor educational prospects could leave a generation of disadvantaged children "trapped" in poverty. The research proves for the first time the negative impact housing insecurity has on educational attainment, showing a direct relationship between the number of times a child moves home and declining GCSE pass rates.
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1 month ago |
blackcountryradio.co.uk | Kate Schneider |Joely Santa Cruz
A National Audit Office report found spending on services increased by £12.8bn - from £60bn to £72.8bn - between 2015-16 and 2023-24, a 21% increase in real terms. Most of this increased spending - £10.3bn - has gone to adult and children's social care, which represents councils' biggest spend, increasing as a share of overall spending from 53% to 58% over the period.
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1 month ago |
news.sky.com | Kate Schneider |Joely Santa Cruz
From bin collections and parks to social care, it's estimated local authorities in England provide more than 800 services for residents, touching on many different aspects of our lives all the way from childhood to elderly care. Spending on services increased by £12.8bn - from £60bn to £72.8bn - between 2015-16 and 2023-24, a 21% increase in real terms.
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1 month ago |
news.sky.com | Tom Cheshire |Joely Santa Cruz
The most asylum applications on record - but also, perhaps, the beginning of a crackdown under Labour. There were 108,138 people claiming asylum in 2024, beating a record that had stood for more than 20 years. But drill down into the numbers and, for the first time since 2020, more applications were refused than granted. That means despite a record number of applications, fewer people - 39,616 - were given asylum in 2024 than in 2023 - 63,000 - under the Conservatives.
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2 months ago |
manxradio.com | Serena Barker-Singh |Joely Santa Cruz
A wave of pro-Palestinian student protest engulfed UK universities last year when thousands protested against the war in Gaza. Most started out peacefully on encampments with students pitching tents on university greens. Now new evidence, uncovered by Sky News and Liberty Investigates, has shed some light on how some of those protests were policed.
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