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Surrey County Council are looking for feedback on plans that would leave more people paying for their own adult social care…. “Before any decisions are made, we want to hear from residents, so I’d really encourage people to share their views.”
An early-career researcher who discovered a nearly identical version of her manuscript published by the researcher who reviewed — and recommended rejecting — the work for another journal is still awaiting a resolution 10 months after reporting her concerns. Dr. Shafaq Aftab, now a lecturer at the University of Central Punjab in Pakistan, learned of the published study last fall.
For more than three years, Starbucks has waged what New York Times columnist Megan Stack called a “dirty war” against its employees’ attempts to unionize. The company has fired union organizers and pro-union workers, cut their hours to deny them healthcare coverage, shut down unionized stores, and subjected employees to aggressive anti-union “captive audience” meetings. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that Starbucks has likely had more complaints of illegal union-busting filed against it than any other company in the National Labor Relations Board’s 90-year history.
An ICU team generally includes nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists, physical and occupational therapists, pharmacists, unit coordinators, social workers, environmental service team members, and in a teaching setting, trainees.
It’s no surprise that the current Labour government, increasingly keen to throw human rights and civil liberties to the wind, would hold fast to a ‘law and order approach’ to drugs. But complacency in the face of bad drugs laws goes beyond Labour. With some exceptions – notably extraparliamentary radicals and anarchists – the UK left has largely followed the drugs status quo. Prohibition has become common sense.
While it is unclear precisely how the White House plans to enact these actions, it instructs federal agencies to crack down on public drug use, urban camping, and loitering. It also directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to potentially pursue legal action against organizations that run supervised drug consumption sites. Harm reduction programs will also be deprioritized. One of the biggest changes would be a shift away from a “housing first” approach to homelessness pursued by the Biden administration.