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How bad is child poverty in Britain? On one hand, living standards have improved exponentially since the mid-twentieth century. On the other, a record 4.3 million children live below the poverty line. Sir Keir Starmer has made tackling this a yardstick for his premiership, yet on Tuesday it risked becoming his first political crisis, with seven MPs losing the whip for voting to remove the two-child limit on universal credit. What kind of difference would scrapping the two-child limit make — and emotion aside, what does the data tell us about the scale of the challenge faced by the new government? Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dT-s8u9K
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In 2022-23, 1.57 million children were registered as “persistently absent” from lessons in English state schools. That’s more than a fifth of pupils missing either a morning or an afternoon of classes at least once a week — twice as many as in 2019. About 140,000 pupils nationally were estimated to be home educated, 80 per cent more than in 2019
Generation homeschool: why 1.5 million children aren’t going to class
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Cathy Adams learns to let go of her hotel shaving kits and cotton pads to restore calm to her chaotic house. Here are the tips she learned ➡️ Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dwX-DFbq
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How can we get 80% of Britons into work? What history tells us | ✍️ David Smith, Economics Editor
How can we get 80% of Britons into work? What history tells us
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Leaning over a computer in a trendy open-plan office near London’s Oxford Street, Greg Jackson is pretending to be me. The chief executive of Octopus Energy is using the “masquerade” function on his company software to delve into my account. He can see how much energy I’ve used, when the company last contacted me and whether I owe him money (I don’t, thankfully — though last winter was a different story). Jackson is trying to make a serious point. He is showing me how Octopus’s software allows it to see into every part of a customer’s energy life — in real time. If they have an electric car plugged in, Octopus knows it, and can decide the cheapest time to charge up the vehicle. It can play back AI-generated transcripts of customer phone calls. And it can show a customer-service operator every detail of an account, so there is no being passed from pillar to post while you’re left on hold. This software, called Kraken, is the “secret sauce”, as Jackson puts it, that has helped Octopus accelerate from nowhere to become the UK’s largest supplier of electricity. Along the way, it has shaken up the energy market and, this year, overtaken British Gas, long the incumbent to beat
The ‘secret sauce’ that helped Octopus take on British Gas
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"It was a life of contradictions. Children not allowed screens, but who are reality TV characters online for millions. A stay-at-home mother who has made a career out of being so. An analogue, old-fashioned farm, only working because it is underwritten by social media cash. A choice — modern in her ability to have one — to do something so very traditional". An interview published last weekend with internet star Hannah Neeleman at her Utah home, Ballerina Farm, has sparked a global social media debate. Our writer, Megan Agnew, revisits her time with the mother-of-eight
My day with the trad wife queen and what it taught me
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The BBC has produced new anti-grooming guidelines that instruct stars on how not to abuse their “celebrity status” or association with the corporation. Staff have also been provided with a guide on how they should report “potential grooming” and “rumours or evidence of a potential relationship involving an imbalance of power”. The rules are contained within the BBC’s policy on managing personal relationships at work, which was recently amended following scandals involving several star names, including Huw Edwards
After Huw Edwards scandal, BBC brings in new anti-grooming rules
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After a failed attempt at a sale, its US owner has begun sprucing up the retailer’s stores, investing in beauty halls, and offering more GP services
What’s next for Boots, by its bosses
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