My report @SkyNews showing how victims of modern slavery and grooming gangs are being denied govt compensation because of their criminal records. Last investigation before maternity leave 👶
'It felt unfair, unjust, I was angry'
Sky News speaks to a victim of sexual abuse who, like many others, has been denied compensation for having a criminal record.
Sky's @AlicePorterTV reports.
Just catching up on this brilliant reporting from @louisetickle who took on the MoD after the government attempted to ban her from reporting that an abusive father was a member of the special forces. https://t.co/YtM6NnbcSv
🚨NEW: It’s “untrue” that pensions administrator Capita have settled all ‘urgent’ ill health cases in the civil service scheme, Mick Orchard says. He worked for prison service for 34 yrs & had to retire b/c of Parkinson’s disease. He can’t get his money👇https://t.co/C8D8FA68wM
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the illegal care home scandal.
A joint investigation between @lbc and @TBIJ uncovers one of the worst safeguarding failures in the care system.
A young girl sexually abused by carers with criminal convictions in “lawless” care home.
👇
https://t.co/WmRnXLsHwi
I've written for today's Times on how both right and left have got it wrong on Islam. The right conflates Islam with Islamism to turn British Muslims into a lightening rod. The left is in denial that there are any issues at all with our multicultural society.
(🔗 up next)
.@SkyNews' @Mollie_Malone1 on why she wanted to make the career pivot that saw her win the Emerging Talent of the Year Award at the RTS Television Journalism Awards #RTSAwards
The govt's Student Loan Plan 2 repayment freeze in April 2027 must be reversed. It isn't moral.
I'm concerned that my debate with Kemi Badenoch this morning distracts from the most immediate problem. In April 2027 Rachel Reeves will freeze the Plan 2 student loan threshold until 2030 which by then will increase graduate repayments by £300/yr more.
This is effectively a unilateral negative breach of the student loan contract. Students were told the threshold would rise with average earnings. No commercial lender would be allowed to do this. The govt shouldn't do it either.
Changing the terms of future students loans is a political decision - people may not like it but it is transparent. Negatively changing the terms of contracts already signed, and long in place, is a breach of natural justice.
"The level of sexual misconduct we see in the medical workforce is staggering"
These are the words of the head of the General Medical Council, the organisation who regulate doctors.
Over the past six months I have put a series of FOI requests into medical regulators that have found that only 53 out of nearly 1,000 cases where sexual misconduct has been reported lead to a doctor being suspended or erased (struck off).
100% this. It is outrageous that the, on average better off, over 60s get these freebies, while on average worse off, younger people subsidise them. Policy remains stuck in the 1970s when older people really were very poor on average. No longer true.
https://t.co/XbgePU74bC
Half of trainee British doctors finishing this summer had no job lined up.
Yet the NHS is poaching foreign doctors. One in six of Nigeria's are now in the UK.
The real scandal isn't pay: it's a broken training pipeline. My column:-
https://t.co/3wT78HLfnE
NEW I was asked by @Telegraph to look into the growth of Turkish-style barbershops in the UK.
Aside from legit premises what emerges is a network of barbers that are fronts for organised crime, money laundering in particular.
Free to read, here: https://t.co/lVUAxwZD9l