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IPPR: Mayors could use skills powers to boost migrant integration and regional economies

From ‘ESOL for integration’ to safe surgeries, IPPR sets out three ideas for England’s mayors to help migrant communities realise their potential...

Friday, 26 March 2021 00:01

Loss of access to EU policing data post-Brexit ‘concerning’, Lords Committee finds

A report analysing security provisions in the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) finds that new law enforcement arrangements are ‘complex’, remain untested and that significant areas are missing...

Friday, 26 March 2021 00:01

Government must not take students’ resilience for granted says Universities UK

Universities UK has today urged the government not to ignore the needs of over a million university students when deciding how to further ease lockdown restrictions in England...

Friday, 26 March 2021 00:01

One in five self-employed people expect to be forced out of business after a year of being excluded from Government schemes, says Labour analysis

New Labour analysis can reveal the cost of the gaps in the Government’s coronavirus support schemes, launched a year ago today...

Friday, 26 March 2021 00:01

NAHT: School leadership pipeline ‘at risk of collapse’ according to new study which finds few aspire to school leadership

Today (Friday 26 March) school leaders’ union NAHT publishes new data showing that the supply of school leaders is at risk of collapse..

Friday, 26 March 2021 00:01

UN envoy calls for more support to aid Palestinian COVID-19 response

COVID-19 continues to have a devastating effect on Palestinians, the Secretary-General’s envoy for the Middle East peace process told the Security Council on Thursday...

Thursday, 25 March 2021 21:29

LGA criticises decision not to extend virtual council meeting powers

Responding to the announcement that emergency legislation allowing virtual council meetings will not be extended, Cllr James Jamieson, Chairman of the Local Government Association, said...

Thursday, 25 March 2021 19:56

More than 250 trees planted as part of North East flood scheme

More than 250 trees are being planted in a Northumberland town to replace those lost during construction of a vital flood alleviation scheme...

Thursday, 25 March 2021 17:17

Oral answer (Lords) on Post Brexit: Economic and Political Opportunities - Mar 25

Lord Rooker asked the Minister of State at the Cabinet Office (Lord Frost) what evidence-based analysis Her Majesty’s Government are using to oversee the cross-government work on maximising the economic and political opportunities flowing from the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union...

Thursday, 25 March 2021 16:09

Oral answer (Lords) on Yemen - Mar 25

Lord Roberts of Llandudno asked the Government what steps they are taking to resolve the famine in Yemen...

Thursday, 25 March 2021 16:08