Briefing: is the modern slavery identification system in the UK being misused? - Free Movement The Home Secretary has claimed (as have many of the last several of them) that the modern slavery identification process is "being misused" and has used this

Stuff on alleged misuse of modern slavery system has been addressed by @sonial77.bsky.social previously freemovement.org.uk/briefing-is-...

Going to leave you with a Home Office chart from their most recent asylum stats so you can decide whether the UK is a magnet for asylum seekers with a uniquely generous asylum system www.gov.uk/government/s...

New compensation scheme for Post Office victims is 'half-baked', Sir Alan Bates warns The Post Office scandal campaigner, who may also be a victim of Capture, accused officials of not learning lessons from previous compensation failures.

New compensation scheme for Post Office victims is 'half-baked' Sir Alan Bates warns

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A week ago, we published this statement by the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group. The response has been overwhelming. The group has had many messages of support from our local area and beyond, and people have been inspired to share the message far and wide in their own communities.

An excellent podcast discussion. Essential listening.

⚖️ "The 'VIP-lane' was one of the most egregious aspects of the way the former government went about procuring emergency supplies during the pandemic."

Our Chief Executive @danieljbruce.bsky.social spoke with @bbc5live.bsky.social to discuss today's High Court ruling against PPE Medpro.

Families accuse care home of 'neglect' and 'cruelty' after secret filming A BBC Disclosure reporter saw vulnerable elderly people left sitting alone for hours in urine-soaked clothes.

In a corporate owned care home, charging £1,800 a week.

Residents face neglect/cruelty.

Left in urine-soaked clothes, wet bedsheets, calls for help ignored, not showered for weeks, excrement in corridors, staff shortages.

Cruelty is the norm when profits come before people.

‘Racists Started Hurling Rocks and Abuse at My Family’: New Deputy Green Leader On His Own Experience of Far Right Hate Mothin Ali, co-deputy leader of the Green Party, on being on the receiving end of racist abuse – and his ‘disappointment’ in Jeremy Corbyn’s new project

🔴‘Racists Started Hurling Rocks and Abuse at My Family’: New Deputy Green Leader On His Own Experience of Far Right Hate

Mothin Ali, co-deputy leader of the Greens, on being on the receiving end of racist abuse and his ‘disappointment’ in Jeremy Corbyn’s new project
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Don’t leave social care out of the equation | Letters Letter: Reform of the community-based care sector is long overdue, says Kathryn Marsden

SCIE’s Chief Executive, Kathryn Marsden OBE, has written to The Guardian about the role of social care in relieving the growing pressure on hospitals.

Kathryn stressed that NHS reform will only succeed if health and social care are treated as equal partners.

Here is our guide to making refugee family reunion applications: freemovement.org.uk/refugee-fami...

Currently at the Artspace on the Prom in Cromer.

National Audit Office publishes report on Afghanistan Response Route - Free Movement The National Audit Office has published a report on the Afghanistan Response Route which was set up following the government’s data leak (for background you

New from Free Movement: National Audit Office publishes report on Afghanistan Response Route | Sonia Lenegan freemovement.org.uk/national-aud...

Silencing the drumbeat again: seeking asylum is legal Hundreds protested in Ashington against so-called "illegal immigrants" - though seeking asylum has been legal since 1951

Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants".

-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.

This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.

Silencing the drumbeat again: seeking asylum is legal Hundreds protested in Ashington against so-called "illegal immigrants" - though seeking asylum has been legal since 1951

YES! Thank you...

Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants".

- seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.

YouTube video by LBC 'You brand migrants in a way that allows you to despise them' | LBC

@zoejardiniere.bsky.social dealing with ignorance.
Is there a Nobel prize for patience?

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excellent photographic exhibition The Outsiders by @marcdavenant.bsky.social at Cromer Artspace on the Prom. Moving stories of homeless and ignored people.

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime

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Me talking about the impact of disability cuts on poverty- and how the government underplayed its poverty impact assessment: the true number is closer to 400,000 people pushed into poverty.

The government pledged to end the moral scar of food banks, not increase their footfall ⬇️

Is the government on track to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments? - Full Fact Full Fact looks at Labour’s manifesto pledge on dentistry.

Last month the government released new details of how it intends to deliver its manifesto pledge to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments.

See how our Government Tracker is rating progress on this pledge - and why - here 👇

Migrant workers in UK to fill care roles ‘charged up to £20,000’ in illegal fees Survey by Unison finds people on health and care worker visas also having to share beds and sleep rough

Migrant workers in UK to fill care roles ‘charged up to £20,000’ in illegal fees

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Moderating demand for NHS care needs much more attention It’s time to revisit the Wanless report and fully engage the public to improve health and reduce demand for services, writes Professor Sir Chris Ham.

it's time to engage people and communities in improving health and using services wisely. Just expanding the supply of care is not a sustainable solution. Wanless in 2002 argued for a fully engaged population which has not been achieved www.nhsconfed.org/articles/mod...

We were very pleased to be able to attend the opening of Outsiders at @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social last night.

We highly recommend you see this show.

@marcdavenant.bsky.social thank you for your work.

How the ‘continuing healthcare’ system is failing sick and elderly people | Letters Letters: Readers on the struggles of getting support for loved ones who need care outside hospital

How the ‘continuing healthcare’ system is failing sick and elderly people

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The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.

Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!

After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻

Labour had plenty of time to ponder social care. Now it has a chance to deliver | Sonia Sodha Keir Starmer’s government can’t leave the urgent question of how social care will be funded to yet another commission

Labour had plenty of time to ponder social care. Now it has a chance to deliver

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Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it | Wes Streeting Our National Care Service will meet the urgent needs of our generation – just as the NHS did when it was created in 1948, says health secretary Wes Streeting

Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it

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Ex-chief prosecutor rejects Musk’s calls for new child abuse inquiry Nazir Afzal and police whistleblower Maggie Oliver say previous lengthy inquiries were not acted upon

Ex-chief prosecutor rejects Musk’s calls for new child abuse inquiry

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If we're going to have an honours system that is open to the whole community - in which we thank people, collectively, for service to the public - we can't keep demanding that they pass a loyalty test to a bygone empire.

At least give a choice between "Empire" & "Excellence". It's such an easy fix.

NFU calling for guarantee Seasonal Agricultural Worker visas will stay in place long term as our food system relies on migrant workers.

No discussion, of course, of widespread exploitation of workers trapped by stringent conditions of that visa #r4today www.workrightscentre.org/publications...

Hit TV show, tick. Millions for lawyers, tick. Now could we manage some actual justice for the subpostmasters? | Marina Hyde The ‘big people’ implicated in this disgraceful run of events need to pay their dues. Britain needs it – and demands it, says Marina Hyde

Hit TV show, tick. Millions for lawyers, tick. Now could we manage some actual justice for the subpostmasters?

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