When a parent is doing time, time with their kids becomes a precious resource. Plans for apartments at HMP Foston won’t be the shake-up the justice system needs
Liberty, along with over thirty organisations and individuals working on mental health, the criminal justice system, racial justice and civil liberties, has called for a rethink of the UK’s approach to responding to mental health crises.
Letters:<strong> Jess Southgate</strong> calls for specific support for girls and young women, while another reader, whose daughter is affected, says bullying starts in primary school
UK school closures mean mothers will take twice as much unpaid leave as fathers – poll Alexandra Topping and Niamh McIntyre
Twice as many mothers as fathers say they will have to take time off with no pay due to school closures or a sick child, according to a survey, raising further fears that the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic is falling disproportionately on women’s shoulders.
According to the survey, carried out by a group of women’s organisations across the UK including Women’s Budget Group and the Fawcett Society, 15% of mothers said they had to take unpaid time off work, compared with 8% of fathers, while 57% of fathers said they would be able to work from home during school closures, compared with 49% of mothers.