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We strongly support the recommendations that:
– disabled children remain within the protections of the Children Act,
– single comprehensive statutory guidance should set out rights and responsibilities,
– a national eligibility framework should be established to end the current “postcode lottery” of provision.
The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts congratulated the 148 graduates on their successful degrees at the graduation ceremony at the Swiss Museum of Transport… Of the 143 Bachelor’s graduates, 66 chose to specialize in social work. 51 chose to specialize in social pedagogy and 26 in socioculture. A further 5 graduates received their Master’s diplomas.
Hong Kong LGBTQ rights activist Jimmy Sham (above) said it was “deeply regrettable” that the bill did not pass and that the government’s inability to protect same-sex couples rights “would remain an open wound”.
Like any marketing campaign, warning labels on tobacco products need regular updating so they continue to attract attention and communicate the latest research evidence. Maintaining the same images risks “wear-out”, when people lose interest in campaign images and messages, or counter argue these. Our recent work found existing tobacco warnings have lost impact. Study participants had created cognitive defences and exempted themselves from the risks shown.
The movement is knitting tenants together into a self-identified class across geography that is carrying out rent strikes, winning critical policy battles, and even shaping the heights of politics. It’s a radical movement: connecting the dots between the housing system and racial capitalism, framing housing struggle as a class struggle, and critiquing the “rent relation” and commodified housing altogether. Above: Tenant leaders in South Minneapolis take action in March 2025 to demand better housing conditions from their landlord.
In the 1990s and 2000s, the entrepreneurial university was hailed as a fresh alternative to the cloistered ‘ivory tower’. But the paradox has since revealed itself. By tying itself so closely to industry and government agendas, the university has drifted into the role of subcontractor for crisis management. Corporate partnerships, once sold as innovation, now often dictate research priorities and even shape what students learn.
I ran a practice inside Brooklyn’s public defense office focused on the police department’s use of science and technology, so I am well accustomed to the department’s collection of personal information on people being investigated for crimes. But more than a decade of observing traditional police work did not prepare me for what the department is doing today: building vast, hidden repositories of data it collects on everyone in the city, with no clear boundaries on how it can be used…. The city’s police force has spent more than $3 billion amassing information that reveals where you have been, whom you have interacted with and what you have said, thought and believed. Unlike previous surveillance methods, new digital tools allow law enforcement agencies to conduct surveillance persistently, universally, at an unimaginable scale. They can do so with no special permission, no oversight and no advance planning. The results amount to a digital time machine that not only makes our past constantly available to law enforcement officers but also can provide them with predictions about our futures.
The family of a man who died at Rikers Island (above) in August is suing the city, alleging he took his own life after corrections officers ignored explicit warnings about his mental health, according to court documents…. The lawsuit claims Avila was placed alone in a cell without monitoring, even after his attorney flagged his mental health needs in open court. His death underscores the ongoing mental health crisis inside the city’s jails, which face the threat of a federal takeover following repeated failures to protect detainees.