This Committee agreed early in this Parliament to draw up a comprehensive re-examination of progress taken to tackle sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector. Our focus is the aid recipients who become victims and survivors of abuse at the hands of individuals working in the sector. This inquiry will consider the support needed […]

The TUC is calling for a temporary legal right to access the furlough scheme for parents and those with caring responsibilities who have had these significantly disrupted due to coronavirus restrictions, and people who cannot work because they are required to shield. The main purpose of the furlough scheme is to support jobs where there […]

Gender biased language in job adverts deters as many as one in two female applicants from applying for roles, according to a study from Openreach. The researchers created a new, consciously unbiased, job description for an entry level engineering role, with the language of the new advert carefully crafted to appeal to men and women […]

The TUC is calling on employers to offer furlough to all parents affected by school closures. Last minute decision by ministers to close schools means many working mums and dads are now without childcare TUC asks employers to ‘do the right thing’ and offer furlough to parents And union body calls on government to introduce 10 days’ paid parental leave Last week the government announced that some schools would not reopen to all children as planned this week, followed by a u-turn on closing […]

The ‘tampon tax’ has been abolished – with a zero rate of VAT applying to women’s sanitary products coming into effect on 1 January 2021. The move honours a government commitment to scrap the tax and is part of a wider strategy to make sanitary products affordable and available for all women which includes: January […]

Women are likely to see their household incomes fall by a third in the year following their divorce, almost twice as much as men (33% women vs. 18%), according to research from Legal & General Retail Retirement. Women see their annual income fall by almost twice as much as men following divorce Women are significantly […]

You may now be furloughed even if you have not been furloughed under the previous scheme, if you are eligible. There is no limit on the number of employees that can be furloughed. Your employer can claim 80% of your salary for hours not worked, up to a maximum of £2,500 per month. To be eligible […]

Only one in five victims of sexual offences in England and Wales were satisfied with their criminal justice experience, a new Loughborough-led study has revealed. Dr Olivia Smith, a Criminology and Social Policy expert in Loughborough University’s School of Social Sciences and Humanities, hopes her research findings will raise awareness and lead to positive changes […]

The gender pay gap between men and women working full time is at its widest for those over 50, according to new analysis from Rest Less, the digital community for the over 50s. According to Rest Less’s analysis of pay data from the Office of National Statistics, the median annual salary of women working full […]

COVID-19 has forced an abrupt change in practice for child protection conferences, with a new survey suggesting that the majority of formerly face-to-face meetings are now being held remotely by video or phone – and now that the shift has been made, professionals feel that in-person conferences are unlikely to resume even beyond the pandemic. […]