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Brighton GP prescribed sex hormones to children as young as 12
1+ hour, 57+ min ago (979+ words) A year-long investigation into medical transition treatment at Well BN found "wholly inadequate" care. Of the full 78 cases, 49 were male, 29 female. In 31 cases, the children lived far from the practice's catchment area " an average of 87 miles away. One lived "over…...
Will graduates ever be compensated for student debt?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (223+ words) A generation of young people were told university was the key to financial prosperity, but misled on what that key would cost them Next time someone tries to tell you the public doesn't care about student finance, politely inform them…...
"I'm depressed but scared to ask for help": A direct line to Britain's youth mental health crisis
2+ week, 6+ day ago (328+ words) Every 45 seconds, a distressed child contacts Childine, which gave 160, 000 counselling sessions last year Ground zero of Britain's shadow operation to tackling the crisis of mental among young people is located on the base level of a redbrick building in the…...
The dark heart of the kidfluencer industry
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (215+ words) Fortesa Latifi's Like, Follow, Subscribe is the first book about the fallout of "family vlogging" "That's a new rule," said her son. "A minimum of six months? Have I ever given something back [in] less than six months? Ummm," her…...
The meningitis outbreak and Britain's long Covid problem
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (193+ words) After the pandemic, we are too quick to panic As news of the outbreak spread, television screens were plastered with pictures of students in masks. Many did not want to go to school or university, too frightened to leave their…...
The student loans crisis is spiralling
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (388+ words) A long neglected social injustice is threatening to explode The student loan crisis has finally made it onto the parliamentary agenda. On Thursday, the House of Commons Treasury Committee launched a new inquiry "into student loans and the broader taxation…...
The complex politics of student loans and the Labour Party
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (974+ words) On 3 November 2010, a little more than an hour after the Coalition government announced that it would be raising the cap on tuition fees to "9, 000, MPs headed to Westminster Hall to debate it. A brief glance over the transcript on Hansard…...
The student loan rebellion is only just beginning
4+ mon, 7+ hour ago (438+ words) Consciousness is dawning. The insanity that "is post-2012 student finance " a system that somehow manages to combine the worst aspects of both a loan and a tax, all without properly funding unive Consciousness is dawning. The insanity that is post…...
Who benefits from the UK skills system?
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (662+ words) Sitting at the intersection of labour markets, education, inequality and productivity, is skills policy serving those most in need? A successful skills system should do two things at once: supply the workforce required for economic growth, and widen access to…...
The age of edible restraint
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (443+ words) Why the smartest food flex right now is eating less, but better. For most of modern history, abundance has been the point. Bigger plates, fuller fridges, restaurants daring you to surrender. Now, quietly and without much ceremony, the mood has…...