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240,000 children are in poverty in Scotland. Every one of them is a reason for all political parties to deliver a better Scotland. 📝 We published a toolkit to ensure that each party's manifestos is up to the task of meeting the child poverty targets: jrf.org.uk/child-poverty/…

Remembering my friend and colleague, the Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead three years ago in Jenin in the West Bank. Israel has acknowledged that she was ‘probably’ shot by one of its soldiers, but no one has been prosecuted for her killing.

When the CPS dropped my case, I had no way to really challenge it - even after they admitted they got it wrong. I’ve spent nearly 3 years fighting for this change. This pilot gives victims a chance to be heard before it’s too late. theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

Happy publication day to The Unthinkable!!! 📚 🎉 🥂📚🎉 🥂 My mum killed my dad, I helped set her free. This is the story I walked, and what it cost. I never thought I’d write it and now, it’s out in the world! 🧍🏼👫🧍🏼‍♂️🏠 🚨 Order NOW! ➡️ hachette.co.uk/titles/david-c…

We welcome the extension of free school meals to everyone on Universal Credit (and hope to see this also implemented in NI) but just look at the poverty impacts of removing the two-child limit and benefit cap - this would make a significant difference to addressing child poverty

New Money and Mental Health research warns that government’s planned PIP reforms will have a “catastrophic impact” on people’s finances and mental health, and could drive people out of the workplace. It says "A system which was already doing a poor job of understanding how mental health

The Government's announced extension of free school meals is welcome and could lift 100,000 children out of poverty when fully rolled out. But this must be the beginning of a more ambitious child poverty strategy

As Dan Hitchens notes, not all hospice doctors are ‘anti’ assisted dying. But the strength of feeling among the hospice workforce about this legislation, and the unintended consequences (for patients, staff and the wider sector) outlined in this piece, can’t be ignored.

"Joseph Rowntree Foundation points out that raising social security benefits not only helps hard-pressed families, but boosts the economy because the increase is likely to be spent... raising legacy benefits in line with the £20 a week [for UC] would boost the economy." hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-1…

Our head of education policy Kate Anstey speaking to BBC News about what free school meals expansion means.

"It's like déjà vu all over again". UKIP, the Brexit Party, and now Reform UK: no-one but no-one gets to be bigger than big Nige.

It's time to reorient ourselves with the Disgruntled Former Teammate & Insider Threat Prevention Handbook.

Men’s Sheds aren’t male-only to entrench male privilege: they are male-only to tackle loneliness in older men by providing an atmosphere in which they can work alongside each other and find common ground. If women want a shed movement we need to build our own, not take theirs.

Unfortunately not in Northern Ireland. The devolved divergences in policy between us & England are getting starker.

Derry Walls 🤩 Mosaic after sunset Visit Derry Northern Ireland

"People will owe more money - they're going to end up borrowing more especially in NI & going to the wrong groups & getting into debt. They will have to borrow to live & many could end up borrowing from paramilitaries." Women's Support Net focus group on the disability cuts. Fleur Anderson

Can we finally say this new scandal is ELONGATE #getscoat #runsaway #veryfast

Illustration from 'The #Summer Book', 1972 by Tove Jansson #womensart #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Major new decision of the King's Bench Division on lawyers' actual or suspected use of generative AI leading to false information being submitted to court. They call for more steps to be taken to ensure lawyers comply with duties to the court. caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/202…