Education
Exam stress for school children
Exam stress clearly affects children in the UK, and there’s some evidence from counselling services and school leaders that it’s a growing problem. Read
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Government defence spending is 2% of GDP
In 2015, the Conservative government pledged to spend 2% of GDP on the armed forces budget in every year that decade. It has never been below this level on record. Read
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Education
Nearly 2 million more children are in good or outstanding schools since 2010
An increasing proportion of children are in ‘good’ schools, while a decreasing proportion are in ‘requires improvement’ schools. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Falsely claiming to live alone accounts for around 9% of benefit fraud
Benefit claimants saying they were single, when in fact they lived as a couple with another person, was probably the fourth most common type of benefit fraud in 2016/17. Read
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Customising annotation tools for factchecking at scale
Here's how we customised Prodigy, an annotation tool, to collect 25,000+ annotations from 90 amazing volunteers, in aid of our automated factchecking project. Read
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Health
Mental health during pregnancy
Around one in four pregnant mothers studied by King’s College London had a mental health disorder, but the study wasn’t designed to be representative of all pregnant women in the UK. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
People who look after people tend to be women on low pay
More women work in occupations that tend to offer lower salaries such as administration and caring. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
The gender pay gap has been falling over time
The gender pay gap, measured by comparing median hourly earnings, is close to a record low level in the UK. Read
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BBC Question Time: factchecked
We factchecked claims on: the pay of people who work in social care and childcare, the gender pay gap, unemployment, and the value of the pound. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
More people are in work since the Brexit vote
Employment has increased since the Brexit vote, and the unemployment rate is 4.3%. Read
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