Month: January 2018

The figures today that have been released by the End-Child poverty report are sadly not a surprise to most who have seen the government make cut after cut to local services. The report shows that 47% of children within in Bradford West are living in poverty. We are the 8th highest in the entire country and poverty has increased by over 10 percent in the last 2 years alone. The rate of increase is the third highest in the country and we must ask how long can they let this…

Bradford Council’s diversity and cohesion service is to be recognised nationally for its work in promoting safeguarding and community cohesion within the district’s supplementary schools. The prestigious national quality mark will be awarded at a ceremony in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 7 February. The event will be hosted by the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Schools and Bradford West MP, Naz Shah. It will be attended by local and national supplementary schools as well as educationalists, politicians and dignitaries. Supplementary schools are community based initiatives that provide additional educational…

Leeds Beckett University is set to play an integral role in a sell-out conference in the city, which aims to shine a spotlight on web attacks, computer hacking and cyber security. This is the first year Leeds will host the BSides conference – the first dedicated conference for cyber security experts – and students from the School of Computing, Creative Technologies and Engineering and from the university’s Ethical Hacking Society are helping to organise and run the event on the day. Held at Leeds Beckett’s Cloth Hall Court in the…

A new report into tourism in the Bradford district shows an overall increase in year-on-year spending, which has been driven by an increase in day trips and visits from overseas tourists. The industry is now worth an estimated £656 million a year to the district’s economy and supports over 13,500 jobs. The figures show that the total spending by visitors is up by 10% and the number of tourism jobs has also increased by 4% from 2015. An estimated 2.25million visitor nights were spent in the district in 2016 as…

The concept of “fake news” came to the forefront of public consciousness during the 2016 US Presidential Election campaign and in particular the rise of Donald Trump. Its profile has risen exponentially to the extent that the term “fake news” was awarded Word of the Year 2017 by Collins English Dictionary, and barely a day goes past without the phrase being used in new coverage. A key question for the UK government is whether more should be done to tackle this very 21st century issue due to the clear shift…