I recently helped organize a housing and homelessness study tour of London (England). Here’s a ‘top 10’ overview of what we learned:https://nickfalvo.ca/affordable-housing-and-homelessness-in-london-england/
Public Services
By Neil Wilson. Reposted with permission from Neil’s New Wayland article. The strike action by UK junior doctors has an unreal quality. It lacks the media and political actions …
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Andrew Kersley spent five months speaking to survivors of child sexual exploitation and experts on the ‘grooming’ of vulnerable women by far-right groups to understand why it is happening
Part Four: The far-right is able to present itself as ‘filling the gap’ left by a lack of services with its own range of 'support' for survivors
The former party leader told Byline Times that Labour will not 'not sign up' to Conservative budgets if the party wins the next general election – a contrast to 1997
David Hencke examines a National Audit Office report revealing HMRC has not done enough to raise awareness of its digital services
A new report has found the ministry spends £3 billion a year on maternity services but paid out an 'eye-watering' £1.1 billion in claims for 2022-23
I’ve just published Chapter 8 of my open access textbook. This new chapter focuses on women’s homelessness. An English summary of the new chapter can be found here: https://nickfalvo.ca/womens-homelessness/ A French summary of the new chapter is here: https://nickfalvo.ca/litinerance-chez-les-femmes/ All material related to the textbook can be found here: https://nickfalvo.ca/book/
A Bylines Times commissioned poll has revealed that people might finally be prepared to pay for better medical care in the UK as frustrations with the service grow
The Express suggested that £100 million of NHS spending on translators should be spent on nurses – but ensuring patients get the care they need is fundamental and a legal requirement, writes NHS consultant David Oliver