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GOVERNMENT failures to provide Covid-19 guidance in other languages has endangered the health of non-English-speaking residents, charities and councils warned on Monday.
In a joint letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, Doctors of the World UK expresses concern that a lack of translated guidance has denied non-English speakers information on how to stay safe during the pandemic.
The charity has had to take it upon itself to produce guidance in over 60 languages in the absence of adequate efforts by ministers.
Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped