Criminalising Distress examines practices associated with the Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM) scheme, which targeted people at high risk of suicide and self harm who frequently contact emergency services, and became a national scandal in 2021 medact.org/2024/resources…

If you’d like to find out more about resisting the UK’s racist & hostile immigration system, power mapping, 1-2-1s and other community organising tools, this workbook is for you. sknb.org/resource/organ…

'The G20 group of the world’s most powerful countries is exploring plans for a global minimum tax on the world’s 3,000 billionaires, aiming to end a “race to the bottom” that has enabled the super-rich to pay less than the rest of the population' theguardian.com/news/2024/feb/…

This Stephen Lawrence day, we're reflecting in the context of three separate incidents.

Reported on in the last 24 hours, together they show why police forces across the UK are not fit for purpose, even on their own terms.

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Has Inequality Broken Democracy? Free Webinar on 29th April us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

'over 50 leading economists and civil society voices have written to Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, calling for the Bank to step up its work to align the financial sector with climate goals as a matter of urgency' positivemoney.org/2024/03/over-5…

The launch of Medact's latest report Criminalising Distress. The culmination of an eighteen month primary research project exploring the Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM) model — and exposing ongoing SIM-like practices medact.org/event/criminal…

A new report from the Refugee Council lays bare the systemic failures in the process refugees face as they seek a place to live following a decision to grant them refugee protection, describing it as “dysfunctional by design and discriminatory in delivery” refugeecouncil.org.uk/latest/news/ne…

Women's Budget Group's full response to the Spring Budget 2024 wbg.org.uk/analysis/uk-bu…

If you are aged 16-25 and interested in affecting social change then The Equality Trust want to hear from you! They are looking to sign-up ‘Youth Advocates’ who will share their experiences and will learn how to gather stories through peerb engagement docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

'The UK’s systems and structures allowed unscrupulous people with connections to make obscene amounts of money out of the pandemic' equalitytrust.org.uk/blog/we-don%E2…

'Once a controversial policy, due to fears that it would lead to fewer jobs, the National Minimum Wage has instead proven to be highly successful. The minimum wage is now a fully accepted part of the labour market' blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

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'Whilst mould & damp present a serious health hazard, there is an urgent need to move housing & health discourse beyond simply the presence of symptoms. We must move towards interrogating mould as the result of a political system that enables its spread' medact.org/2024/blogs/mou…

'Positive Money’s new paper argues that by not accounting for the environmental impact of the assets accepted as collateral, the Bank is implicitly subsidising the most environmentally damaging companies, by making it easier for them to raise financing' positivemoney.org/2024/02/stop-t…

'counsellors act as political agents of the institution by aligning mental health discourses with institutional explanations of suicide that begin and end with minds and their pathologies' telegraphindia.com/opinion/mental…

'These hotels are no longer places where people take a break, they are places where people seeking asylum are being broken' refugee-action.org.uk/heartbreak-hot…

Despite the creative potential of art and design education, the classroom experience has become limited by an educational system that encourages well-worn routes to ‘grade-success’ that favour a narrow art canon runnymedetrust.org/visualise

'Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones' nature.com/articles/d4158…

'In this general election year, it is imperative that the next UK government commits to ending austerity and tackling poverty and inequality to strengthen both the economy and the health of the public.' bmj.com/content/384/bm…