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Thursday, 09 June 2022 23:35
10,000 migrants already this year
10,057 migrants have now crossed from France to the UK since January. This time last year the figure for small boat arrivals with people fleeing wars and persecution was 4,200. They are desperate for sanctuary as…
Thursday, 09 June 2022 23:31
Children in care abused
Vulnerable children in homes run by Calcot Services for Children were abused when staff should have prioritised safeguarding them. Calcot runs eight homes, four schools, and supported living accommodation, making huge profits of 36%, double that…
Thursday, 09 June 2022 23:29
Long Covid care
The Royal College of Nursing is urging the Government to increase investment in long Covid research after being warned that patients are suffering under a ‘postcode lottery’ in care. Some clinics treat long Covid as a…
Thursday, 09 June 2022 23:27
Working from home
UK workers are less keen to return to commuting than their European counterparts. Over a third of them still work from home. Hybrid working is the new normal. The new night for after work drinks is…
Thursday, 09 June 2022 23:24
School absenteeism
Parents are receiving an increasing number of fines by schools trying to encourage children to stop missing school. Almost 1.8 million children regularly missed school in the first term of this academic year. As part of…
Thursday, 09 June 2022 23:21
Ukraine: scenarios to pray about
The story of this war cannot yet be written, but we can pray about possible scenarios. One would be Russia and Ukraine grinding each other down with neither demonstrating capacity to land a tactically decisive blow.…