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On Wednesday 23 February, the TUC will host the UK launch of Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change, Amanda Tattersall’s new book on how to build powerful coalitions between unions and community organisations. The release of Power in Coalition is timely given the need for civil society organisations to come together [...]

Researchers identified eight groups of friends covering a mix of social class, gender and education, using data from the Belfast Youth Development Study. The 41 participants – aged 18 or 19 when interviewed – were asked about their drinking between the ages of 12 and 18. In this way, the researchers construct a picture of [...]

Y Care International in taking action on disabled people’s rights. You can still get involved in this exciting project.Y Care are recruiting ten organisations in the UK to raise awareness of disabled young people’s rights and take action to end discrmination faced by disabled young people in the UK and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. [...]

If your voluntary or community group has been told your funding from the public sector has been cut, you can tell your story through a new website launched this week. Voluntarysectorcuts.org.uk displays cuts on a map and also provides the data in a spreadsheet available to all. It’s a collaborative project to help understand the [...]

Speakers including John Hayes MP, Minister for Skills, Frances O’Grady, Deputy General Secretary, TUC and Simon Waugh, Executive Chair of NAS will discuss how the apprenticeship agenda will develop in the coming years and look at the union role the new agenda. As part of the preparations for the conference we are currently carrying out [...]