"Deradicalisation" referrals: young and increasing?
It's been reported that referrals to the government's "deradicalisation" programme, Channel, are on the up. That's broadly correct. 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.
Education
A million more pupils in good or outstanding schools? Not just a simple story of school improvement
There's no doubt that schools' Ofsted performance is improving. This progress is partly due to Ofsted's changing inspection practice. Read
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Education
How many truanting fines go unpaid by parents?
It was claimed today that 40% of fines for pupil absence go unpaid. It's more like 20%, according to the latest data (for 2012/13). Read
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Education
Fall in the number of children being placed for adoption
The Department for Education puts the decrease down to the misinterpretation of two high profile court judgments. Read
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Education
16-19 education saw the largest fall in education spending over the last Parliament
An analysis of the claim by the Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell that the Conservatives have overseen the deepest cuts to post-16 education ever. Read
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Europe
Small businesses and EU membership
European Movement UK has claimed that small businesses support EU membership. We've taken a look at what some recent surveys tell us. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
How large is the housing gap?
Housing was first up in Jeremy Corbyn's debut Prime Minister's Questions, where he claimed there was a housing gap of around 100,000. Read
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Education
Are there record numbers of young people going to university?
We take a look at the different ways of measuring university participation by young people and disadvantaged young people. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Food banks, zero hours contracts and falling wages: are we worse off?
John McDonnell argued on last night's Question Time that some of the government's economic boasts are hollow. We've taken a look at his claims. Read
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Immigration
Ask Full Fact: are asylum seekers mostly men?
Readers have asked us whether it's true that most refugees are male. Of those applying for asylum in the EU recently, more than half have been men aged over 18. Read
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