British Isles
Church support for new relationship education
This week, a new framework for the teaching of relationships and sex education (RSE) replaced a twenty-year-old version written before smartphones or social media. Despite steps in regulating the internet, primary school-aged children live in a…
Half a million UK children missed measles jab
Children should have two measles inoculations to be fully protected, but 527,000 UK children were not given the vaccine between 2010 and 2017. The NHS has warned that measles cases had almost quadrupled in 12 months,…
PM plans fourth Brexit vote as bid to oust her fails
A report on 25 April suggests the prime minister is planning to bring forward a law next week to enact her withdrawal agreement, even though it has been rejected by MPs three times. The law is…
Children’s food insecurity
4.1 million UK children live in poverty, but how many of these children experience food insecurity? How does it affect their lives and what could be done about it? The Trussell Trust gave food parcels to…
