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Quarter of English state primary schools are 'ethnically segregated'
‘Significant fails’ in percentage of white British children attending local schools in some areas, according to study
#文法學校 #種族隔離 #族群 #英國教育議題
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※ 作者: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-17 02:57:21
※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-17 03:22:35

https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/videos/10154620444311323/
Occasionally, parliament is witness to moments of true bravery. Today that was Vicky Foxcroft's speech about her baby Veronica.

“She was never able to cry, to smile, but I loved her and desperately wanted her. I got to hold her then for the first time until her heart eventually stopped ... I never wanted to let her go.”
1.2M Views

#流產

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 03:34:15

研究顯示 英國年輕人過著一個「暫停式」 的成年日子 - 衛報
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漸行漸遠 住屋危機讓世代隔閡加大
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Skip a generation when passing on homes, says housing minister | Society | The Guardian
#英國社會議題 #社會住宅 #居住正義 #窮忙與低薪資 #民生議題
原標題：Young people living in a 'suspended adulthood', finds research
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戰後嬰兒潮已經拿走所有的房子了 現在他們還要來分食早午餐 - 衛報評論
http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Brunch is the opiate of the masses. We are not going out for brunch instead of buying houses: we are brunching because we cannot afford to buy houses
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Property rentals to outstrip sales for first time since 1930s
Low supply and rising prices leads to more new lets than purchases, says estate agency
老外也懂小確幸
早午餐
沒地方住(live)只好過好好的享樂過生活(live)
#老屁股 #租屋 #年輕人 #炒房與房價上漲 #英國社會議題 #社會住宅 #居住 #省錢
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So what do you do when you can’t afford to buy somewhere to live? Well, you decide to live.
You get Ubers, you travel, you buy a good phone, you get a laptop, you go for brunch (many of these things – particularly travel and electronic goods have fallen in price, while house prices have accelerated way beyond income growth).

http://www.theguardian.com/money/201...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Triple-lock pension should be scrapped, say MPs | Money | The Guardian
#退休金


https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Older people due to pass on property ‘wealth mountain’ worth £400bn

http://imgur.com/wBpHZsD
Housing inheritance will benefit younger generations selectively, with less than a quarter of under-45s likely to gain
#繼承權 #貧富差距懸殊

http://click.mail.theguardian.com/?q...38190d212b568bb49dc9bd8ea4dbfd
Older people to get help to downsize and free up family homes
#老人 #英國社會福利議題 #居住正義

https://www.theguardian.com/business...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Smaller deposits raise hopes for UK first-time homebuyers

Hamptons says re-emergence of higher loan-to-value mortgages combined with lower lending rates and cooling prices have boosted purchase prospects

#買房 #購房 #購屋 #英國社會民生議題 #存款 #小額 #提升希望 #居住正義 #房貸 #房屋貸款

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 14:53:40

http://www.facebook.com/alison.hendrick/posts/1264853573584731
http://www.facebook.com/TheCanarySays/posts/1199194016786056
Destroyed by market forces.
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/10/05/conservative-policy-wrecked-schools-now-getting-worse/
Conservative policy has wrecked our schools, and now it's getting worse | The Canary

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 15:10:40

http://click.mail.theguardian.com/?q...8b7412c2ce045e2ac81ac2df5878f7
Huge increase in number of graduates 'bad for UK economy...
#英國社會議題與經濟發展
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**http://www.plurk.com/p/lsawrv**

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 15:11:23

http://www.facebook.com/nikki.foster.33/posts/10154636731764612
http://www.facebook.com/babeswhodgaf/videos/1241949412484017/
Mhairi Black MP kills it once again
溫室效應
網路犯罪與資安

https://www.facebook.com/nikki.foster.33/posts/10155202932404612
 https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/videos/655798227941277/

Mhairi Black says the Tories’ system of benefit sanctions is designed to victimise the most vulnerable in society.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) MP says the regime costs more to administer than it saves, makes those using it more likely to fall into hardship – and shifts blame from those who should be held to account.

#社會福利 #貧富差距
https://www.plurk.com/p/lxhcyz
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https://www.theguardian.com/educatio...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Government spending billions on free schools while existing schools crumble

National Audit Office says £6.7bn is needed to bring current school buildings up to standard while ministers have pledged to build 500 free schools by 2020

#英國教育議題 #教育金費 #財政理財規劃管理能力 #浪費民脂民膏 #搞錯方向
http://www.plurk.com/p/m2w3sb

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 15:17:44

http://www.facebook.com/nikki.foster.33/posts/10154444570574612
http://www.facebook.com/stopfundinghate/videos/310014316002572/
英國反移民
停止仇恨

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 15:29:38

http://click.mail.theguardian.com/?q...3d1e576c83729df2be28a6d0373e90
Treasury plan may allow RBS to avoid selling 300 branches
#財政部 #RBS皇家蘇格蘭銀行 #避免賣掉300家分行

https://www.theguardian.com/business...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
RBS shareholders take battle over cash call to high court

Case will see disgraced former boss Fred Goodwin forced to defend accusations investors were misled into buying shares

#股東

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※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 15:57:25, 15:58:06, 16:02:59, 16:03:17, 16:09:18

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Michael Gove's anti-Turner prize tweets are childish

The former education secretary has dubbed the work of Turner prize winner Helen Marten ‘modish crap’ – and championed his own blinkered version of post-Brexit art history
#幼稚

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:10:36

http://click.mail.theguardian.com/?q...0501c79024ea42c1797b38d934d0d5
Graduate sues Oxford University for £1m over his failure to get a first

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:11:17

https://www.theguardian.com/theobser...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Caitlin Moran: ‘I brought the Observer staff a suitcase of vomit, and they gave me a job’

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:11:28

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

Edward Heath child abuse investigation 'not a witch-hunt'
Wiltshire chief constable says significant number of people have disclosed claims of historical abuse against ex-prime minister

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:11:39

http://click.mail.theguardian.com/?q...929fdc5777d0a63bcc8c99873adb48
Met police heavily criticised over child protection failings
#兒童權益 #兒童福利

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:17:58

http://click.mail.theguardian.com/?q...22991715d00124377a66cf1dbbe0e9
Casey review raises alarm over social integration in the UK

Study attacks attempts by governments to boost ethnic integration as ‘saris, samosas and steel drums for the well-intentioned’

#社會整合 #種族
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※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:24:54

http://click.mail.theguardian.com/?q...6532f79bcf2b8721826249944efcdd
British government insists intervention in Libya 'undoubtedly' saved lives

#利比亞 #介入干涉 #救人命

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:26:24

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Police say they are becoming emergency mental health services
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/02/wiltshire-police-hospital-bed-mental-health
#心理健康 #精神疾病
http://www.plurk.com/p/ltrl51
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#就好像台灣的消防隊什麼都要會？

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:30:24

http://click.mail.theguardian.com/?q...25610cdde6a032f699812c2a407f6a
Hundreds of police officers accused of sex abuse, inquiry finds
#警察 #性侵

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:31:58

http://click.mail.theguardian.com/?q...e3774643907205b68685ccf9561590
Rejoice! A Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wedding could rescue 2017 | Peter Bradshaw

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/02/prince-harry-britain-race-royals
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and the myth of royal purity | Afua Hirsch | Opinion | The Guardian

血統迷思神話

英國王室皇族

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:33:12

http://click.mail.theguardian.com/?q...12e2fc0e564b714399f5c30dab348a
Campaigners warn of emergency over online child sexual abuse

British campaigners warn of emergency over online child sexual abuse

NSPCC report suggest more than half a million men in the UK may have viewed child sexual abuse images online
#復仇色情 #兒童福利 #孩童性虐待 #戀童癖
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:46:04

https://www.theguardian.com/business...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

Homebuyers return but struggle to find suitable properties, says Rics

Number of properties on the market falls again in October as buyers’ interest rises for second month in a row, survey finds

#買房 #房價 #居住正義 #居住權 #房市

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:49:11

http://click.mail.theguardian.com/?q...bf23f73e2ba0b8a3a366b9419e3f50
Theresa May puts 1,200 soldiers on standby to tackle winter floods

Storm Angus brings heavy rain and 80mph gusts to south coast
Warnings issued by Met Office as southern England swept by 50mph winds with storm expected to head north

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:50:56

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

North of England loses 310,000 graduates in 10-year brain drain

Bristol is only English city other than London that attracts graduates despite better chance of home ownership in north

#腦力 #知識經濟 #畢業生
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※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:55:27

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-but-enemies-may-still-triumph
The BBC needs more courage to thrive

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https://www.plurk.com/p/m1ckhx

https://www.plurk.com/p/m0iyrk


※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:56:28

https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

Student loans: fight over 'disgraceful' freeze on income threshold

Plea for action after government stopped repayment cut-off rising in line with average income – ‘no commercial lender would get away with this’

#學生貸款

http://www.plurk.com/p/m2u1jt

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 16:58:35

http://click.mail.theguardian.com/?q...f4b016bb9b8be90eab2c7bed0404b5
£5 animal fat bank note: British vegetarians being 'stupid' says inventor

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http://click.mail.theguardian.com/?q...0eba228fb8c52bb43ac1275f0dfbb6
London mayor sets 35% affordable homes target in deal with developers
#社會住宅 #英國社會民生議題
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http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/1903506/print
目睹15萬隻羚羊病死BBC團隊全被嚇傻- 國際- 自由時報電子報

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 17:01:29

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/27/sovereignty-corporations-liam-fox-eu
Sovereignty? This government will sell us to the highest bidder | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian

The past of the new international trade secretary, Liam Fox, as a corporate stooge is known. He promises post-EU freedom, but will hand control to big business

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#出賣主權 #金錢導向

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 17:04:08

http://tinyurl.com/zdzpmc7
#英國假大學 #看門狗 #斂財

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 17:11:50

http://tinyurl.com/zv6rjpl
Theresa May called on to stop culture of honours for No 10 'cronies' | Politics | The Guardian

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 17:14:09

http://tinyurl.com/jsyg4mp
Banning alcohol in airports is the worst idea I’ve ever heard | Luke Holland | Opinion | The Guardian

#機場酒精禁令

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-18 17:14:29

https://goo.gl/WtDDNQ
Cold weather to nip UK's hottest day of year in bud

#氣候變遷 #最熱 #高溫 #冷天 #極端氣象 #天氣

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-19 13:28:31


https://www.theguardian.com/politics...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
George Osborne facing calls to quit as MP over Evening Standard job

Former chancellor appointed as London daily’s new editor is under pressure from Labour and some Tories to resign as Tatton MP

#公務員兼職報社編輯 #呼籲辭職

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Osborne could be a potent weapon in this Brexit war

The Evening Standard’s new editor poisoned British politics, but pro-Europeans need his cunning

#Brexit英國脫歐公投 #親歐派需要他的狡詐

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
George Osborne: history will not be kind to a man whose flaws led to Brexit

The Evening Standard editor will go down as the austerity chancellor who got the referendum campaign spectacularly wrong

#樽節 #節儉

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
George Osborne accused of disrespect for MPs' rules over Standard job

Former chancellor should have cleared appointment with ethics watchdog before announcing it, report says

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...n-shows-resolve-to-take-on-may
Osborne's first Evening Standard edition shows resolve to take on May Read more

via https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

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 https://goo.gl/zC2kAF
 【Mark McGowan】 The British Media is Sick

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2017/apr/25/uk-snow-weather-cumbria-aberdeen-south-wales

#北極 #天氣

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-04-26 01:59:35

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

The garden bridge is dead – now £37m of public money must be repaid

Despite its exclusivity and rickety economics, the garden bridge project went far further than it should have thanks to Boris Johnson’s disregard for planning rules

#倫敦 #鮑里斯強森 #橋梁計畫 #不是浪費公帑 #納稅人的血汗錢 #公共建設 #修復

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https://www.google.com.tw/search?q="...2016,cd_max:4/23/2017&tbm=

 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/21/david-cameron-jokes-listening-trump-wiretaps
 David Cameron jokes: 'I don't have to listen any more to wiretaps of Donald Trump' | Politics | The Guardian

#英國 #演講

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-05-01 01:52:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_hC7VfyCdo

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SqH7ynY1g

#最詭異的選舉

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https://www.theguardian.com/info/2017/apr/18/the-snap-sign-up-for-the-guardians-election-briefing
The Snap: sign up for the Guardian's election briefing

via https://www.theguardian.com/politics...474966&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn9u-q5uDCw

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-05-12 20:42:53

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nH2dzqyMck

#BBC #黑人 #種族歧視

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-05-17 16:43:34

http://www.plurk.com/p/m3hqsc

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/steve-hilton

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...d-the-frustrations-people-have
Steve Hilton: 'I’m rich, but I understand the frustrations people have'

David Cameron’s former blue-sky thinker says the rise of populism is due to the super-rich’s inability to put themselves in the shoes of those less well off – before accepting a free cab ride and becoming lost for words about his own wealth

#英國社會議題 #有錢人

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5woLmM2SMY

#辯論會

※ 編輯: Ctea 時間: 2017-05-24 16:09:04

https://newstral.com/en/article/en/98...harrow-would-be-social-housing

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entr...es_uk_59207dabe4b094cdba548307

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/31c8ed69-2752-4e96-bf85-7647c6866ee6
"If I were Prime Minister for the Day"
#如果我是首相

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http://www.storm.mg/article/48625
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https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ild-chilling-way-to-save-money
A rape test for welfare is a chilling way to save money
Keir Starmer

Rape that results in pregnancy is one circumstance that defies the chancellor’s notion of choice about family size

The chancellor’s announcement in this year’s budget that the child element of tax credits and universal credit will no longer be awarded for third and subsequent children born after 6 April 2017 is already highly controversial. The effect will be to take up to £2,780 per child per year from working families in receipt of tax credits.

The chancellor attempted to root his approach in a notion of fairness, emphasising that it is “important to be fair to the many working families who do not see their budgets rise by anything like that [sum] when they have more children”. But that is to compare apples to oranges and to overlook need. The implication is that if families on tax credits choose to have a third child, they should be treated, at the same time, as consciously choosing to be poorer.

The cost of welfare is thus to be reduced by policing bedrooms up and down the country. There are many reasons why the chancellor’s analysis is unacceptable and unfair but, even on his own analysis, it presents a problem. What to do about children born of rape?

Hidden away in paragraph 2.103 of the “red book” (the budget) is the following sentence: “The Department for Work and Pensions and HMRC will develop protections for women who have a third child as a result of rape, or other exceptional circumstances.”

In other words, a rape test will be introduced into our welfare law. The implication being that those mothers who can provide evidence of rape will not have their tax credits removed, presumably because they did not choose to have a third child.

This proposal is chilling. It is well recognised that the vast majority of women subjected to rape are unlikely ever to come forward and report to the authorities what has happened to them. Under-reporting of rape has been running at 80%-90% for years. Does the chancellor seriously think that women, who find the prospect of reporting a rape to the police so horrendous that they would rather remain silent, will come forward and disclose it to the DWP? That proposition only needs to be stated to be seen to be absurd; and the government’s distorted thinking does not end there.

Are women really expected to identify their third-born as conceived during rape to avoid losing their tax credits: something most, if not all, would find wholly anathema?

Make no mistake, this is a first in our welfare system. According to House of Commons library research, carried out on my behalf, “there are no similar provisions in other welfare legislation which require people to proactively identify themselves and demonstrate that they have been raped”.

At the committee stage of the welfare reform and work bill, this provision needs to be closely scrutinised and challenged.

But the problem for the chancellor is that, having based his welfare reduction approach on the supposed choice of parents to have a third child, he cannot escape the consequences. He has to make some provision for rape; but how to do so without introducing a rape test?

Dig a little deeper and the extent of the unfairness of the chancellor’s approach becomes even clearer. What about mothers who have a third child because of ongoing abuse within the relationship? Power lies at the heart of most domestic abuse, and that includes power over sex, when to have children and how many.

In 2013, the government proudly trumpeted the introduction of a new definition of domestic violence and abuse as: “any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are or have been intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality. This can encompass, but is not limited to … psychological, physical, sexual, financial or emotional.”

Yet women who have a third child because they fear the consequences of not complying with their partner’s threats and demands are to be deprived of tax credits because of their “choice”. How does that sit with the government’s commitment to tackle domestic violence?

The bedroom choice theory underpinning the chancellor’s budget needs to be held up to the light, closely examined and then binned.

In the real world, choice over whether to have a third child is a slippery concept and the penalty for decisions made in the bedroom, for a whole variety of reasons, should not be poverty.


https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/03/exemption-clause-for-tax-credits-in-chaos-says-mp
Rape exemption clause for tax credits 'in chaos', says MP Alison Thewliss

Victims meant to be exempt from two-child limit, but with weeks to launch no systems are in place, claims SNP politician

The government’s plan to exempt women from a two-child limit for claiming tax credits if they have been raped are in “absolute chaos”, a leading opponent has argued, with no system in place for the scheme just weeks before it begins.

The proposal to restrict tax credit entitlement for any new claimants to a maximum of two children was announced in 2015 budget by the then chancellor, George Osborne. It included exceptions for multiple births, and also for women who could show their third or subsequent child was conceived because of rape.

Alison Thewliss, the SNP MP who first highlighted the so-called rape clause and has since campaigned against it, said that with the measure scheduled to come into force in April, ministers still seemed to have no idea how women could actually claim the exemption.

A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) consultation last year said the determination of whether a rape had happened would be placed with a “professional third party”, which could include health workers, police, social workers or rape charities.

However, a series of parliamentary questions by Thewliss found no sign of any of these groups being given training on how the system will be run. Philip Dunne, the junior health minister, said his department was not involved in the scheme.

Thewliss said that when the system begins, women who had been raped and wished to claim the exemption from the tax credit cap would have no idea where to go.

“It’s absolute chaos. And it’s very vulnerable women who are at risk as a result of this,” she said. “From the budget in 2015, when it was announced, they’ve had nearly two years and they still don’t know how this policy is going to operate.”

It was hard to see how the system could operate at all without medical staff being trained, Thewliss said.

“The Department of health have bumped it back to the DWP, saying, ‘It’s nothing to do with us,’” she said. “But to say some has had a third child in circumstances that point towards rape, that indicates having some kind of medical evidence.”

The Glasgow Central MP said that with almost 120,000 police officers and nearly 19,000 adult social workers in England alone, the scale of any training regime was potentially enormous.

It was, she said, deeply worrying that women affected did not know who to turn to. “I’m absolutely shocked by the complacency the government has around this issue,” she said.

“In other circumstances, where I’ve asked questions of ministers and others in charge of this policy, they just don’t seem to understand how it’s going to operate at all. And they’ve had almost two years to figure this out.”

The plan has caused concern among other MPs, and women’s charities, with a number calling for it to be dropped. But the DWP announced in January that it was to go ahead after the consultation.

A DWP spokesman said the changes to tax credits were “a key part of controlling public spending”. He added: “We will be laying regulations before parliament shortly, to ensure the right exceptions and safeguards are in place and the changes are delivered in the most effective, compassionate way.”


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 https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017...rliament-vote?CMP=share_btn_fb
 Tax credit ‘rape clause’ becomes law without parliamentary vote

Controversial move, which requires woman who had third child as result of rape to verify her position, added to existing act

A controversial proposal to ask new mothers who have been raped for verification if they wish to claim tax credits for more than two children has become law without any debate or vote in parliament.

The so-called rape clause, which will be applied as part of new restrictions on tax credit entitlement, was added to legislation late on Wednesday as an amendment to an existing act. The plans will come into effect within a month.

Alison Thewliss, the SNP MP who first highlighted the issue of the clause, led a furious response, saying it was an “underhand parliamentary tactic” to introduce the measure without proper scrutiny.

She also described as “frankly astonishing” the fact that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP ) had introduced the scheme apparently without having trained any of the people who will judge whether someone claiming the exemption has been raped.

The regulations, announced in the 2015 budget by the then chancellor, George Osborne, were put into law through a statutory instrument, a form of legislation that allows laws to be amended without parliament’s approval.

The policy coming into force on 6 April restricts tax credit entitlement for new claimants to a maximum of two children, with exceptions for multiple births and for women who could show that their third or subsequent child was conceived as a result of rape.

Those seeking to claim the exemption for rape must be assessed by what the government has described in a consultation as a “professional third party”, which could include health workers, police, social workers or rape charities.

With the regulation about to come into force, however, there is no indication of how a woman who has been raped could begin the process of claiming the tax credit exemption, or whether any of the third parties have been trained.

Thewliss said she had tabled a motion of prayer for annulment, a somewhat arcane version of the early day motion, in which a group of MPs sign a paper calling for a statutory instrument to be scrapped.

Such motions can be used to register displeasure with a government plan, but they rarely overthrow statutory instruments. According to Thewliss, the last time one was annulled in this way was 1979.

“Using such an underhand parliamentary tactic to railroad the rape clause into law is just the final insult this government could possibly dish out,” she said. “Not only did ministers sneak out their shameful consultation response as the eyes of the world were watching Donald Trump’s inauguration, but they’re now trying to put the rape clause on the statute books without a vote or debate, let alone any detailed scrutiny by MPs.

“The government must accept this policy is unworkable as well as immoral. With just days until nurses, doctors and social workers are expected to verify whether women had their third child as the result of rape, it’s clear there’s been no sexual violence training for those working with such vulnerable women.

“This is frankly astonishing, especially when you consider that the government is trying to railroad this through using medieval parliamentary procedures.”

The plan has caused worry among other MPs and women’s charities, with a number calling for it to be dropped. The DWP announced in January that it was to go ahead after the consultation.

The department has described the changes to tax credits as “a key part of controlling public spending”, and has pledged to implement the exemptions in “the most effective, compassionate way”.

A government spokesman said: “It’s absolutely right that we have the right exemptions in place and we have thought carefully about how we will work with charities and health and social care professionals to support victims of rape. We will be publishing guidance shortly.”

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It is better being a Muslim in the UK than other countries

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Private schools to save £522m in tax thanks to charitable status

Tax relief granted to 586 out of 1,038 private schools, including Eton College and Dulwich College

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The work ethic is fading among millennials. That applies to royals too | Gaby Hinsliff

Prince Harry is entitled to question his role in life – but he shouldn’t be surprised if sympathy is limited

Once upon a time, brother would happily have murdered brother to wear the crown. Families were ripped asunder in pursuit of it, pretenders to the throne routinely met grisly ends, and even marrying into the proximity of royalty could be lethal.

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Hello! Goodbye: royals gift to magazines as reality stars lose shine, says editor

Sales are slumping across the sector but Hello! chief says royal family has staying power thanks to new generation

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Question Time 23/3/17: London attack, Welsh Brexit, McGuinness legacy and Osborne's 6 jobs - YouTube
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Bridge to Tintagel raises philosophical and practical objections

Critics of planned bridge say increased footfall could erode island’s structures – that is, if anyone is willing to cross it

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Enough of this cover-up: the Wilson plot was our Watergate | Jonathan Freedland

It seems fantastic now, but 30 years ago there really was a plot to carry out a coup d'etat against a British prime minister

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Winston Churchill's eccentric working habits revealed in rare papers

Secretaries working for ex-PM recall a ‘very caring person’ in memorabilia released to mark the UK release of Darkest Hour

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