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Education
The government’s claim about more children in good or outstanding schools doesn’t acknowledge the impact of rising pupil numbers, and that many schools haven’t been inspected since 2010. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A widely shared tweet makes several claims about government spending on defence, the royals, HS2, Trident, Donald Trump’s visit and more. But what did these things actually cost? Read
Education
Spending per pupil in England fell by 8% in real terms from 2009/10 to 2017/18, and will be held constant from 2017/18 to 2019/20. UK education spending was about average among OECD countries in 2015. Read
The UK Statistics Authority has written to the Department for Education to express “serious concerns” about the Department’s “presentation and use of statistics”. Read
Question Time on October 5, 2018 came from Canary Wharf in London. Topics covered were austerity, immigration, knife crime and clapping being replaced with hand waving. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Austerity policies have impacted the poorest households most. Despite this, since 2010 the poorest households have seen their post-tax incomes rise the most. Read
Data analytics student Oliver Price spent a summer working at Full Fact, where he helped improve our Live factchecking tools. He details what he got up to... Read
45% of Labour’s shadow cabinet are women and 13% are of non-white ethnicities Read
Crime
Fewer 10 to 17 year-olds have been prosecuted for the cultivation and possession of cannabis over the last 10 years, but increasing numbers for the possession with intent to supply, and supply. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Over the past eight years the UK’s employment growth has ranked 12th out of 28 EU countries. Our employment rate was fourth highest in the EU in the first three months of 2018. Read
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