North West’s digital divide closing slower than official targets, study reveals
Exclusive data analysis by web design and development agency Rouge Media, reveals the digital divide in the North West is closing slower than official targets but...
Half a million cancer suffers take financial hit during pandemic
New analysis from Macmillan Cancer Support finds that around half a million people with cancer in the UK have taken a financial hit from...
New Northern research project set to tackle link between transport and social exclusion
A new research project has been launched by Transport for the North (TfN) to help uncover and address the challenges of transport-related social exclusion...
Double jobs and mental health crisis facing young people risks outlasting the pandemic
Young people have been at the centre of two interlinked crises during the pandemic, experiencing the largest employment hit and sharpest increase in mental...
End of furlough likely to be particularly tough for older workers
While a lot of the focus on the employment effects of the pandemic has, rightly, been on the young, employees over the age of...
New study identifies factors associated with increased drinking during lockdown
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have published a new study which showed that increased drinking during the first COVID-19 lockdown was associated with...
Youth services are in crisis, failure to act now will see lost opportunities for...
With up to 1 in 4 youth centres under the threat of closure, and emergency funding for youth services coming to an end, failure...
GPs should be barred from taking up new jobs in wealthy areas and directed...
GPs should be barred from taking up new jobs in wealthy areas and directed to work in deprived regions in order to “level up”...
System failures contribute to self-harm amongst imprisoned women who have been in care
Women in prison who have experienced the care system as children report using self-harm as a way to communicate, alleviate and end the pain...
Nearly a third of all UK workers in full or part-time employment are given...
Nearly a third of all UK workers in full or part-time employment are given less than a week’s notice of their shifts, rising to...