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Sam Freedman will chair IPPR’s advisory council for the State of a Generation programme, bringing political, local government, academic and sector leaders to shape research on young people’s lives after a digital childhood, the pandemic and reduced local services.
Presents a study claiming government ‘marriage‑lite’ policy plans would reduce births by more than 75,000 a year, warn of a worsening demographic time‑bomb and report public unease about the proposed changes.
Ruth Marvel, CEO of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, has senior leadership experience at Girlguiding and Scope and serves as a trustee of NCVO and chair of the Co‑op Foundation’s trustees.
Provides an authority‑by‑authority guide to qualifying benefits and eligibility criteria for free school meals and school clothing grants, enabling parents and advisers to check entitlements across local councils.
Explains how children due to start school in Scotland in August 2026 can qualify for the Best Start Grant school age payment, setting out eligibility criteria and the application reminder for families with children beginning school that month.
Finds that about three-quarters of Americans in their late 30s or early 40s have at some point lived with a romantic partner to whom they were not married.