Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2 March 2021
Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week…
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Jo Maugham QC: This dangerous new Conservative bill threatens the right to protest
This week the government announced its intention to legislate the right to protest out of meaningful existence.
The state of child social care is a scandal – I know from experience
Can the government’s new review of the children’s social care system fix it?
Left Foot Forward is hiring a co-editor
Got a track record of hard-hitting journalism? Help lead the LFF Team.
Students have been hung out to dry by Gavin Williamson
University students have been constantly sidelined and ignored throughout this crisis, writes student and journalist Zesha Saleem.
The government needs to protect domestic abuse shelters for women
Campaigners are calling for the government to protect lifesaving women’s domestic abuse services.
Tory ‘levelling up’ fund is leaving some of the poorest in Scotland behind
The SNP have slammed the government for depriving some of the poorest Scots of funding in the scandal-hit ‘levelling up’ scheme.
The Greens have joined calls to increase the NHS pay rise
At their conference, the Greens joined unions in demanding a 15 percent rise for all NHS health and care workers
The pandemic has highlighted how landlords prey on students
But are students fighting back?
Exclusive: Social partnership bill is model for UK, says Welsh minister
Social partnership means employers, unions and government working together.