Secret Plans To Turn Staff Into Police Informers
Council workers, charity staff and doctors will be required to tip off police about anyone whom they believe could commit a violent crime, under secret Home Office plans.
Read MoreCouncil workers, charity staff and doctors will be required to tip off police about anyone whom they believe could commit a violent crime, under secret Home Office plans.
Read MorePeople with learning difficulties such as Down’s syndrome are to be tagged and monitored by satellite technology in a controversial pilot project.
Read MoreA hospital worker with a grudge against the NHS may be trying to kill patients by sabotaging crucial equipment, police fear.
Read MoreUrgent action is needed to prevent a “cancer time bomb” exploding as a result of soaring obesity rates, a leading specialist warns today.
Read MoreDowning Street today sought to play down the row over a call by industry minister Margaret Hodge to give established British families priority social housing over immigrants.
Read MoreA controversial Unicef report placing the UK bottom of the league for child well-being is really talking about England, a statistician has said. The report, which was criticised by the government, placed the UK at the bottom of 21 industrialised nations. But a further study of the report’s data reveals Scots and Welsh children are much happier than in England.
{mosimage}Dr Kevin McConway told Radio 4’s More Or Less that some of the Unicef conclusions were based on England. Dr McConway, of the Open University, studied the original survey data Unicef used to compile its report. Unicef, the United Nations childrens’ agency, based its report on 40 indicators including poverty, family, relationships and health. “Britain came off pretty badly with most of the dimensions looked at,” he said. “Some of the data was based on a World Health Organisation which was done separately in England, Scotland and Wales and it wasn’t done at all in Northern Ireland.
“In the Unicef report – which placed the UK at the bottom – in terms of the data they got from the WHO they only used the English data. For example they asked 11, 13 and 15 -year-olds if they found other classmates kind and helpful – England did very badly on that with only 40% but in Scotland and Wales it was much higher – it was two thirds in both of those areas. This would have put Scotland and Wales in the middle of the pack of other countries covered in the Unicef survey, whereas England is doing pretty badly.”
Read MoreAs many as 2.2 million people in the UK have given up full-time employment to care for children or other dependants in the past three years, according to a new report.
Read MoreYoung men in Scotland must be targeted in the fight against prostitution, according to a leading American feminist. Janice Raymond, an executive director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, wants schoolboys to be educated about prostitution in an attempt to shape male attitudes towards pornography and sexual exploitation from an early age.
Read MoreUniversities are calling for the Scottish Executive to waive tuition fees for the children of asylum seekers after it was revealed a small number of students are already being offered degree places.
Read MoreFoster carers in Glasgow are refusing to take on new children until concerns are addressed over the way allegations against them are dealt with.
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