Search results for ‘child benefit’
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FactCheck: is second Covid jab safer for UK teenagers than in some other countries?
Children aged 16 and 17 will be offered a second dose following fresh advice from the JCVI.
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FactCheck Q&A: vaccinating healthy 12 to 15-year-olds against Covid
Millions of youngsters have already had the jab in other countries.
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Covid: jabs for 12-15s are dividing opinion
The announcement that vaccines are going to be offered to 12 to 15-year-olds in schools like this one, the John Smeaton Academy in Leeds, has divided opinion.
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Gambling Addiction: Bereaved families fight for reform
As the government prepares to redraw the laws on gambling for the first time in 16 years, families whose lives have been devastated by gambling addiction are fighting for much tougher regulation.
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FactCheck Q&A: Why are we vaccinating 16 and 17-year-olds?
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) updated its advice today after weighing the potential harms and benefits of offering the vaccine to 16 and 17-year-olds.
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FactCheck: Johnson’s questionable universal credit claim
The government didn’t offer us any evidence that it lifted 200,000 people out of absolute poverty.
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FactCheck: the new coronavirus lockdown rules
Here’s what we learned today about going outdoors, meeting family, schools reopening, face coverings and social distancing.
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FactCheck: why hasn’t Britain closed its schools?
Boris Johnson has said that closing schools could do “more harm than good”.
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FactCheck: is Labour’s ‘£6,000 savings’ claim misleading?
FactCheck thinks that almost every figure Labour have used is questionable.
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FactCheck: Theresa May’s slips, u-turns and broken promises
Her time in office will forever be associated with Brexit. But the trials and tribulations of Mrs May’s premiership don’t end there.
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Medical cannabis products now available on prescription
The conditions remain strict: only specialist doctors can prescribe it, and only in rare cases like extreme childhood epilepsy. But many still believe this is a landmark moment in recognising the drug as a mainstream treatment option.
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Doctors should be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis, say government drug advisers
Doctors in the UK should be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis, according to the government’s chef drug advisers, after an initial review found there was evidence it could have “therapeutic benefit” for patients with some conditions. The review process was launched by the Home Secretary Sajid Javid after several high-profile cases involving children with epilepsy…
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Exclusive: Russian Foreign Minister accuses UK of ‘extermination of the evidence’ in Skripal case
In an exclusive interview with Channel 4 News, Russia’s top diplomat said he would not rule out the possibility that the UK was engaged in a cover-up. Sergey Lavrov also claimed that “all kinds of tricks” had been used to change the rules of the OPCW, the international chemical watchdog.
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FactCheck: How easy will it be for EU citizens to stay in Britain?
People will have to answer three “simple” questions and pay £65 to be allowed to carry on living in Britain after we leave the EU. But is the process really as simple as it looks?
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Is cannabis legalisation coming to the UK?
The Home Secretary has ordered a review into the medicinal use of cannabis – saying his decision was prompted by the cases of two young children with severe epilepsy, who were denied access to the drugs they need. Sajid Javid said the review would first look into which cannabis based medicines might offer real benefits…