Current affairs
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Fresh questions today about the way our society treats vulnerable children.Firstly, the Welsh Refugee Council has taken the unusual step of going public with concerns about an individual case – an Afghan refugee named Mashal Jabari, an orphan who arrived in the UK last October.At the heart of the case is a dispute over Mashal’s
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Fresh fears are raised today about the way schools are protecting teachers and pupils from potentially-deadly exposure to asbestos.The leading authority on asbestos, the Asbestos Training and Consultancy Association, took a snapshot of 16 UK schools and found that none was meeting health and safety rules on managing the substance.It reports: “All of the schools
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The UK Government yesterday claimed that the post mortem examination report into the death of biological weapons expert Dr David Kelly was being kept secret to protect his family.Campaigning MP Norman Baker asked Justice Minister Michael Wills who had made the decision that medical reports and photographs connected to the death of Dr Kelly should
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Around 1,000 children are locked up every year by the UK’s immigration system.They have often fled countries where they experienced violence, war and discrimination.The children have committed no crime but, according to the Children’s Society, many experience “depression, weight-loss, bed-wetting and even self-harm”.The Society has joined with Bail for Immigration Detainees to create the OutCry!
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Prison snitch evidence is a central feature of many alleged and proven miscarriages of justice.This sort of evidence was important to the conviction of Gordon Park, the so-called ‘Lady in the Lake’ killer, who was found dead in his prison cell on Monday.Today, in the Daily Mail, Bob Woffinden explains why Mr Park’s family will
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Are Welsh schoolchildren and teachers sitting on a health time-bomb?It is a frightening question and one which has been asked increasingly loudly throughout the last few months.The concern relates to asbestos in our school buildings.Between the 1960s and 1980s asbestos was widely used in the construction industry, in particular for roofing, spray coating, pipe-lagging, insulation
Greg Lewis 