This weekend, the NEU holds a special conference to debate changing its approach to organising teaching assistants, which a 2017 TUC agreement forbids. General secretary DANIEL KEBEDE outlines the choices before delegates
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Only Labour will tackle the scourge of child poverty
The Tories are in denial about how their austerity agenda is linked to deepening poverty, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
In the first of a series of interviews with leaders of progressive parties in Wales ahead of the May 7 Senedd election DAVID NICHOLSON talks to Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth
Anyone who criticises those in power in Kenya risks their freedom or worse. The brutal abduction of Booker Omole marks a new escalation in a country sliding toward authoritarian rule, says MARC VANDEPITTE
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FIGURES published earlier this month by the Trussell Trust showed the steepest increase in people needing foodbanks in the past five years.
Then this week the Trussell Trust followed this news up by saying that they expected foodbank demand this Christmas to be even higher than last year, when it provided 186,185 three-day emergency food parcels by its network to people in crisis, with almost 80,000 of those going to children.
A big factor in the increased use of foodbanks is thought to be punitive Conservative policies, like the five-week wait in universal credit, which are pushing people to the point of destitution.
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