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The number of cases of disability hate crime prosecuted in court has plunged by nearly 40 per cent in just one year, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) figures have revealed.

The fall appears to be the result of a steep fall in the number of cases referred to prosecutors by police forces, with one leading disabled campaigner saying the figures showed the police “failing disabled people yet again”.

It is the third year in a row that the number of disability hate crime prosecutions has fallen steeply and the figures have caused alarm among disabled campaigners.

Looking at all the available evidence and data England had 1,235,000 homeless men, women and children in the year up to the end of March 2020. 

Note well this 1.235 million English homeless numbers equates to the pre-pandemic position of no lockdown, no eviction ban and no recession, all of which will markedly increase this figure. 

Those of a Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Arab background consistently earned less than white British employees official figures show.

Overall, the pay gap between white and ethnic minority employees continues to fall and is at its smallest level for seven years, There was a 2.3% gap in earnings between white and ethnic minority employees in England and Wales in 2019, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

Young workers from ethnic minority backgrounds now earn more on average than their white British counterparts, figures reveal.

The analysis shows that the ethnicity pay gap has vanished for those who began their careers over the past 15 years.

In its latest, unsurprising but painful prognostication, the IMF World Economic Outlook projected what it described as a ‘deep recession’, with global growth expected to fall to -4.4%.

Speaking ahead of the WEO forecast, IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath said:

“So we continue to project a deep recession in 2020 with global growth projected to be -4.4%.  This is a small upgrade relative to our June numbers. We expect growth to rebound partially in 2021, coming back to 5.2 percent. However, with the exception of China, all advanced economies and emerging and developing economies, excluding China we are projecting output will remain below 2019 levels well into 2021. Therefore, we see that the recovery from this catastrophic collapse will likely be long and even highly uncertain,”

FactCheck readers have been asking us about this claim from the Prime Minister:

“The result of universal credit so far has been that there are 200,000 fewer people in absolute poverty now than there were in 2010.”

The pay gap between white and ethnic minority employees continues to fall and is at its smallest level for seven years, official figures show.

There was a 2.3% gap in earnings between white and ethnic minority employees in England and Wales in 2019, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

A challenge faced by the ONS during the pandemic is the inability to conduct face-to-face household interviews, having to rely on telephone surveys instead. So we’ve been exploring how this might have affected responses to our Labour Force Survey on which the key UK employment data are based.  Jonathan Athow explains what we have found and how we plan to tackle it.

Continuing to collect and publish our regular statistics has clearly been challenging in recent months, but a challenge we have successfully met. Alongside our usual publications, we have also launched new surveys, such as the Business Impacts of Coronavirus Survey, utilised new data sources, such as online job adverts from Adzuna, and expanded existing data to give weekly estimates from the Labour Force Survey and flash employee estimates from payroll tax datagive fresh insight into the pandemic’s impacts on our society and economy.

LOVE should not hurt, warns a survivor who was shot and left for dead after years of abuse.

Rachel Williams is just one woman who suffered within a violent relationship for almost two decades and now spends her life inspiring other women to speak out.

A stalker hacked into a woman’s security cameras then sent footage of her relaxing in her own living room in a campaign of harrassment.

George Coughlan, 33, bombarded his victim with hundreds of messages from 61 different social media a

Welsh Conservatives back call for national housing survey

Mark Isherwood MS – the Shadow Minister for Local Government and Housing – has welcomed a proposal from the National Residential Landlords’ Association (NRLA) Wales for a housing survey in Wales.

NRLA launched its campaign for political parties to commit to expanding the evidence base for housing by introducing a Welsh Housing Survey (WHS).

The call comes as the Welsh Parliament is in the process of passing its fourth Bill affecting the private rented sector in six years without any comprehensive, government-commissioned data set for housing to support good policy making.

Reliable data on the proportion of the population that is lesbian, gay, bi-sexual or transgender will be gathered for the first time in next year’s census, with members of the public asked to provide information about their sexual orientation and gender identity.

White British employees in London are paid almost a quarter more than their BAME colleagues, new data has revealed.

Although the ethnicity pay gap between white and ethnic minority employees has narrowed to its smallest level since 2012 in England and Wales – at 2.3% – the difference in pay is largest in London at 23.8%.

The global economy is climbing out from the depths to which it had plummeted during the Great Lockdown in April. But with the COVID-19 pan- demic continuing to spread, many countries have slowed reopening and some are reinstating partial lockdowns to protect susceptible populations. While recovery in China has been faster than expected, the global economy’s long ascent back to pre-pandemic levels of activity remains prone to setbacks.

The UK faces a long road to economic recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this chapter, we consider the near-term outlook in depth. Lockdown measures implemented in response to COVID-19 slashed nearly two decades of growth from the UK economy in March and April of this year. Since then, the economy has rebounded strongly on the back of the return of capacity and high levels of policy support.