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As a House of Lords committee finds significant numbers lack means and skills to get online we meet some of themThe government is allowing “millions of citizens to fall behind” due to digital exclusion, a House of Lords committee has warned.As services…
Speaking at launch of UK’s ‘first museum created with and for young people’, Tristram Hunt said it could help fill gapA “horrible disparity” is opening between state and private schools in the provision of creative education, the director of the V&…
Countries in debt distress thrown financial lifeline but critics say measures fall short of what is neededPoorer countries struggling with a growing debt crisis were thrown a lifeline at a global finance summit in Paris but the plans still fell short o…
Average height of boys and girls aged five has slipped due to poor diet and NHS cuts, experts sayBritish children who grew up during the years of austerity are shorter than their peers in Bulgaria, Montenegro and Lithuania, a study has found.In 1985, B…
Largest study in decades also dismantles myths about the unhoused – such as coming from out of state and not wanting helpNearly half of all unhoused adults in California are over the age of 50, with Black residents dramatically overrepresented, accordi…
Nearly 70% of office workers say their firms have not increased number of black, Asian or ethnic minority leadersThe number of senior business leaders from ethnically diverse backgrounds has not significantly increased since the death of George Floyd s…
Pratt’s is the latest establishment haunt to allow female members but others are still resistant to changeMild signs of a potential willingness to modernise have been observed in some of central London’s establishment clubs in the past few weeks, led b…
Teachers, nurses, social workers and emergency responders are already clustered in areas where housing is cheaper, data showsHow gentrified is your postcode? Search our map of Australia’s capital citiesEssential workers in New South Wales such as teach…
Public accounts committee warns that without more intervention, attainment gap could take decade to return to pre-Covid levelsIt could take a decade for the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their wealthier peers to return to pre-pandemic…
Some higher-income residents – who already enjoy subsidies for solar – oppose paying more than low-income householdsCalifornia will soon become the first state to determine residents’ electricity fees based on their income as part of a new effort to sp…