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Care reforms to push the vulnerable aside
Research by the London School of Economics has revealed that thousands of elderly and disabled people will no longer receive funding towards the cost of the care they require on a daily basis, ...
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Benefit cap failing
A study by the Chartered Institute of Housing of the implementation of the benefit cap has found that it is neither saving money nor getting benefits recipients into employment, according to...
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Nationalisation, poverty and energy prices
Owen Jones argues that while seven out of 10 voters want energy companies renationalised, the Coalition is subjected to corporate entryism which allows providers to increases prices at three times the rate of inflation and allows foreign nationalised energy companies to benefit, in a comment...
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Innocent man tasered five times
Two police officers have been sacked after tasering an innocent man five times in their van in 2009, reports The Daily Mail.
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Plebgate police ‘poor judgement’
The officer’s embroiled in the Plebgate row have admitted to poor judgement in talking to the media but stopped short of a full apology for their conduct, ...
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Fresh assault on ‘health tourists’
The Coalition is today expected to announce plans to charge temporary migrants a surcharge of £200 to cover the cost of their medical care in order to deter them from coming to the UK in search of free treatment, ...
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Expand your mind
Here is a list journals from our inbox that caught our eye this month:
Probation Journal: A special issue on innovation in probation, edited by Lol Burke. It includes articles on community engagement,...
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Boris watch
There's lots of pictures in the papers today of Mayor of London Boris Johnson riding shotgun in a helicopter over Hong Kong during his China jaunt.
This is our favourite, courtesy of Imgur.
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Modern day slavery
Nearly 30 million people are living in slavery around the world, according to the Global Slavery Index produced by the Australian-based Walk Free Foundation. India tops the chart, with almost 14 million people living in slavery conditions.
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Injustice by geography
'A baby in the South-east of England can expect on average to live between two and three year years longer than his or her contemporary in the North-west',...
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Air pollution causes cancer
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an agency within the World Health Organisation, has officially classified outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic. In a report it claims air pollution from traffic and industrial fumes was a cause of lung cancer and was linked to bladder...
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We appointed the other guy
We enjoyed the tortured prose in a recent Ministry of Justice press release on the appointment of Colin Allars as the new Director of the National Probation Service.
'A director has been chosen to lead the new National Probation Service (NPS),' it begins, 'after the candidate who was due...