Labour government confirms it is axing special fund to help Birmingham tackle impact of supported exempt accommodation

Parents wish to ‘take matters into our own hands’ as William Blake House faces potential winding up order A group of families have launched an audacious bid to take over their disabled children’s residential care home after it emerged the charity running it faces closure after amassing huge tax debts and paying £1m in fees to one of its trustees. William Blake House faces a potential winding up order in seven weeks and is under investigation by regulators over serious financial governance concerns. The families said they no longer trust that the charity’s board has their children’s best interests at heart. Continue reading...

New proposals that would force poorly paid migrant workers to wait longer for earned settlement are nothing more than an assault on working-class people, says Unison’s general secretary Andrea Egan

Simi Jacobs explores the suppression of Zionist identities on Birmingham University campus

Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to wrongly indicate suicidal ideation AI tools are making potentially harmful errors in social work records, from bogus warnings of suicidal ideation to simple “gibberish”, frontline workers have said. Keir Starmer last year championed what he called “incredible” time-saving social work transcription technology. But research across 17 English and Scottish councils shared with the Guardian has now found AI-generated hallucinations are slipping in. Continue reading...

Trains will be running roughly every 30 minutes from Kings Norton to Birmingham New Street along the Camp Hill Line

Exclusive: Childnet, a UK charity part-funded by US tech firms, edited out warnings by two young speakers at its 2024 Safer Internet Day event An internet safety campaign backed by US tech companies has been accused of censoring two teenagers they invited to speak out about the biggest issues facing children online. Childnet, a UK charity part-funded by companies including Snap, Roblox and Meta, edited out warnings from Lewis Swire and Saamya Ghai that social media addiction was an “imminent threat to our future” and obsessive scrolling was making people “sick”, according to a record of edits seen by the Guardian. Continue reading...

The amazing story of young, white, non-South African people who went on secret missions to South Africa to help overthrow the apartheid regime.

Two years after ProPublica first documented the state’s dire shortage of guardians — and the substandard care some provide — lawmakers are pitching a $15 million-per-year fix. It’s unclear whether the...

Exclusive: Material gathered was personally given to Josh Simons when chair of pro-Starmer thinktank, say sources

WORCESTERSHIRE County Council has been given a “sobering” warning over the state of its finances.

Walsall Council has reported no negative health or climate implications as a result of losing 13.7 acres of public woodland

Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

Graham Walker, 74, and Lyn Walker, 71, have now been locked up