Nursery World: Mothers suffered mental health crash ‘equivalent to divorce’ during school closures, says study

This article was written by Hannah Crown and published in Nursery World. Having childcare ‘substantially’ boosts women’s mental health, research into the impact of school closures has found. The research, out today, found mothers experienced a crash in well-being when schools closed during the pandemic on a scale equivalent to…

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John warns Ministers about dangerous Henry VIII powers included in the Energy Prices Bill

A Conservative former minister warned Jacob Rees-Mogg that future Labour governments may use planned sweeping powers in the Energy Prices Bill to renationalise “anything they like”. Weston-super-Mare MP John Penrose expressed his “grave disquiet” with Henry VIII powers in the Bill, telling the Commons: “It isn’t just me, it is…

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