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Overstretched 'sandwich carers' trying to help parents and children
Carers looking after elderly parents and children face depression and stress.
bbc
Published: 14 January 2019
Sugar education to be part of core school subjects
<img alt="Sugar education to be part of core school subjects" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/9fedf416-375d-4ac0-8eeb-1cdc6e5a5212/3/Sugarresource2-320x198.jpg" /> <p> Public Health England (PHE) revealed the average 10-year-old has consumed 18 years' worth of sugar - an excess of 2,800 sugar cubes each year - according to government data.  With more than a third... </p>
cypn
Published: 14 January 2019
Inside the hidden world of Britain's Hasidic ultra-Orthodox Jews
Izzy Posen describes what life is like inside one of the UK's most secluded religious communities.
bbc
Published: 14 January 2019
Healthy eating: What is a correct food portion?
British Nutrition Foundation launches new "handy" guide to stop people cooking and eating too much.
bbc
Published: 14 January 2019
Universal credit: Single mums win High Court battle
The women say they are struggling financially because of the way their payments are calculated.
bbc
Published: 11 January 2019
School debt climbs nearly fourfold, warns think-tank
<img alt="School debt climbs nearly fourfold, warns think-tank" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/77b43269-284c-4efe-a1ec-dbb8dce5da08/1/f6967683fbe2bff331e146e2ef77b96bjpg-320x198.jpg" /> <p> In 2017/18, 30.3 per cent of local authority-run secondary schools were in deficit, which is almost four times 2014's proportion of 8.1 per cent,  according to Education Policy Institute analysis. The... </p>
cypn
Published: 11 January 2019
MPs criticise government's child mental health plans
<img alt="MPs criticise government&#39;s child mental health plans" src="https://www.cypnow.co.uk/w-images/b886b0b0-dc0d-4d0d-8520-d9e789191b40/3/MegHillierMPPictureParliamentTV-320x198.png" /> <p> The House of Commons public accounts committee is particularly critical of the government's 2015 Future in Mind strategy, which is backed by £1.4bn in funding and pledges "a cross-departmental vision"... </p>
cypn
Published: 11 January 2019
Universal credit: U-turn on two-child cap on benefit
Minister scraps plan to cap child-related benefits for families with more than two children born before 2017.
bbc
Published: 11 January 2019
Ethnic minority academics speak out over unfair pay
Some staff say they are unlawfully being paid thousands less for the same work as white colleagues.
bbc
Published: 11 January 2019