Over 7m households still have no broadband or internet access say peers
4m people are still unable to complete a single basic digital task to get online,5m workers will be acutely under skilled in basic digital...
Manchester to see opening of three brand new family hubs
Thousands of families in Manchester are set to benefit from three brand-new Family Hubs that will offer early support to families and young people...
Pandemic policies overlooked long-term needs of children
As young people weren’t considered to be at high risk from Covid-19 directly, pandemic policy decisions largely ignored their needs and resulted in their...
One in ten NHS healthcare workers had suicidal thoughts in the pandemic
About one in ten NHS healthcare workers experienced suicidal thoughts during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic
Concerns were raised about the risk of...
Thousands of victims of domestic abuse are “falling through the cracks of the system”
Thousands of victims of domestic abuse are “falling through the cracks of the system” without access to legal aid, refuge or financial support, according...
Policymakers must learn from the impact of COVID-19 on older people say Manchester researchers
Policymakers must learn from the impact of COVID-19 on older people in order to tackle the deep-seated inequalities exposed by the pandemic, according to...
GPs have recorded a large rise in eating disorders and self-harm cases among teenage...
General practices have recorded a large rise in eating disorder diagnoses and self-harm episodes amongst teenage girls in the UK in the years since...
Increasing Paternaity leave could boost the economy by £23 billion
Increasing paid paternity leave to six weeks could reduce the gender pay gap and help to equalise men and women’s participation in the labour...
1989 babies almost three times more likely to have a degree compared to those...
Children born to non-graduate parents in 1989 were almost three times more likely to get a degree compared to those born in 1958, new...
“Match girls” were trailblazers for workers’ rights, argues Manchester researcher
The story of how women in Victorian match factories fought against the brutal use of white phosphorus, was instrumental in shaping today’s workers’ rights,...