Health
Is austerity linked to 120,000 unnecessary deaths?
A report estimates 120,000 more people have died since 2010 than would have if the mortality rate from 2001-10 had stayed the same. Read
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Amy Sippitt
Head of Research (former)
Amy led our Policy and Research Team, and managed Full Fact’s research projects and academic partnerships. She previously led our fact checking team. She was responsible for gathering practical evidence to measure and enhance our impact and performance. Amy joined Full Fact in February 2014 from Buttle UK, a charity that provides grants to vulnerable young people. She graduated with a Masters in Social Research while working at Full Fact.
Economy, Business & Finance
Did 500,000 children need emergency food supplies last year?
The figure is about the number of three day emergency food supplies given out to children by the Trussell Trust last year—about 437,000—not the number of children who received them. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Young people in record levels of debt?
It’s not clear this is the case looking at the levels of debt of all young people, including those not at university. Read
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Education
Who's right on disadvantaged young people at university?
Most recent data suggests disadvantaged students may be beginning to lose ground in higher education - but it's too soon to read too much into it. Read
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Health
Has the NHS got the money it asked for?
The NHS “got less than we asked for”, the chief of NHS England Simon Stevens told MPs in the Public Accounts Committee in January. Read
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Education
£100 billion: the cost of writing off student debt?
The true ‘additional’ cost of a policy to write off current student loans, compared to the amount the government already ‘writes off’ from unpaid loans, would be lower than this. Read
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Education
Are university applications falling in the UK?
University applications by disadvantaged students haven’t fallen in the last few years. Read
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Europe
Public support for a "hard Brexit"
For the most part Remain and Leave voters do not have diametrically opposed views of what Brexit should entail, according to polling experts at NatCen. Read
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Full Fact looks ahead: what information are we going to need in future?
Public debate without a good information supply is a breeding ground for fudged, cherry picked or made up numbers. Read
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