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Colin Sherriff obituary

My friend and former colleague Colin Sherriff, who has died aged 75, worked in social housing for half a century, including as a director at three housing associations, Circle 33, Thames Valley Housing and English Churches Housing Group. He then became chief executive of Windsor and District housing association, which was set up to receive housing stock transferred out of local authority ownership. He was their first (and initially only) employee, and from 1994 to 2006 added 450 people to his team, creating a positive tenant-focused culture. Continue reading...

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‘Realistic and reassuring’: UK public ‘responding calmly’ to Be Ready campaign

Government’s emergency planning advice has sparked sales of essentials but no panic stockpiling, say prepping shop owners When the UK government launched its “Protect and Survive” public information campaign in 1980 on how to survive a nuclear attack, it was met with a combination of scepticism, disbelief and derision. The advice included how to build a “fallout room” at home, how to whitewash windows to protect from a blast, and how to store a dead body for up to five days. Continue reading...

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UK children just as likely to have suffered harm on social media despite crackdown

Campaigners call lack of progress ‘staggering’, as Ofcom also admits little change in severity of harm to children encountering unsafe content Landmark online safety measures have failed to limit the proportion of children suffering harm from social media, the UK’s online regulator has admitted, in an assessment branded “staggering” by campaigners. The proportion of children being fed unsafe content that often left them frightened, confused and upset, was almost unchanged, according to an Ofcom review of the first nine months of supposedly strict requirements on social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram. Continue reading...

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