The film and television industry needs to “move from well-meaning words to tangible change”, according to a Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity (LHC) report which has researched the…
In a stark indictment of decades of institutional racism, ableism, and classism by governments, the Social Metrics Commission (SMC) 2024 report has laid bare the deepening poverty crisis in the…
A ground-breaking report from Hourglass, Economic Abuse by Numbers, has exposed the staggering social and economic costs of abuse against older people in the UK, revealing a hidden epidemic of…
Older people are being targeted more than ever before in new statistics and data revealed by Hourglass as part of its Safer Ageing Week campaign. Hourglass: its work is inundated…
When Glyn Hayes from Welwyn in Hertfordshire applied to Access to Work for a new wheelchair attachment, he never expected what was supposed to be a 12-week process to last…
For the first time, the staggering £16 billion cost of abuse against older people in the UK has been exposed in a landmark report from safer ageing charity, Hourglass, revealing…
Charity Hourglass launched its fifth annual Safer Ageing Week campaign on Monday 11 November. Entitled ‘Take Note’, it runs from the 11 to 17 November and warns of the continuing…
The following article is a comment piece from Simone Aspis, project manager for Free Our People Now – a project led by Autistic people and people with Learning Difficulties at…
For one moment I was concerned I might not make the deadline for this latest, Labour budget-themed instalment of Swindon’s Sunday Sermon. You can just imagine the queues out there,…
As the clocks went back on Saturday 26 October, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) published new analysis which revealed the number of Black and brown workers regularly doing night work…
Labour has found itself in a bit of a mess over the concept of what constitutes a ‘working person’. While this may seem pretty straightforward to you, it’s far from…
A big issue for Democratic US presidential election nominee Kamala Harris is her party’s handling of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Many argue that the US could end the suffering overnight…