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Great Britain: Plan To Track Progress On Lifting 550,000 Children Out Of Poverty Published

The report sets the 2024/25 baseline position – the starting point for child poverty before the landmark Child Poverty Strategy was published – and outlines how progress will be measured over the Strategy’s full ten-year course, with annual reporting providing transparency and accountability. Scrapping the two-child limit, expanding free school meals from September 2026 and launching […]

Great Britain: BSR To Introduce More Proportionate And Targeted Approach For Higher-Risk Building Assessments

The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) plans to modify how it issues building assessment certificates (BACs). The proposed new approach will be more proportionate and targeted. It will also offer greater support to resident-led principal accountable persons (PAPs). The building assessment certificate foundation plan responds to feedback from PAPs, financial institutions and other stakeholders. It addresses the […]

United States: Department of War Announces Awards $86 Million Joint Laser Weapon System Agreements To Scale Directed Energy Capabilities

The Department of War announced today the award of two Joint Laser Weapon System (JLWS) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements to advance the United States’ next-generation cruise missile and unmanned aerial system (UAS) defense architecture. The agreements with nLIGHT Defense and Lockheed Martin Aculight, executed by the Department’s Scaled Directed Energy (SCADE) Critical Technology Area […]

United States: U.S. Department Of Education Holds First-Of-Its-Kind Higher Education Fraud Summit

On July 7, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) held the first-of-its-kind Higher Education Fraud Summit featuring Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent, Assistant Attorney General for the National Fraud Enforcement Division Colin McDonald, and White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud Executive Director Scott Brady. The event drew over 800 participants to discuss […]