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United Kingdom
Show me all types of advances during COVID-19
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| Visa Extensions for Health Workers During Coronavirus (COVID-19) | Equality, Migration, asylum, and trafficking |
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Eligibility for one-year visa extensions was granted to qualifying health workers and their family members whose visas were set to expire between April 1 and September 30 2021 and who… |
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| 2020 UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery | Equality, Migration, asylum, and trafficking |
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Given that the COVID-19 pandemic “intensified” the work of the Modern Slavery Unit of the Home Office, steps were taken “to ensure that victims continue to have access to essential… |
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| United Kingdom – Scotland Police Scotland – Message to Communities | Equality, Persons with disabilities |
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Police Scotland states that it is “aware some disabled people have reported being unfairly challenged and, on occasion, abused about issues linked to social distancing and face coverings,” commits to… |
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| Birmingham City Council Develop Communication Campaign to Support Disadvantaged Communities | Equality, LGBTIQ+, Persons with disabilities, Racial and ethnic minorities |
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The Birmingham City Council’s Public Health Division “developed a communication and engagement campaign to further support BAME [Black, Asian, and minority ethnic], disabled and LGBT communities across the city during… |
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| Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill: Equality Impact Assessment | Equality, LGBTIQ+ |
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The government carried out Equality Impact Assessments to consider the impact of the urgent measures contained in the Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill (March 2020) and in the Coronavirus (Scotland)(No. 2) Bill… |
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| Home Use of Both Pills for Early Medical Abortion up to 10 Weeks Gestation | Equality, Reproductive rights |
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In order to “reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 and ensure continued access to abortion services,” the government “put in place a temporary approval in England, enabling women and… |
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| Scottish General Election (Coronavirus) Bill | Governance, Voting and elections |
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The “Act of the Scottish Parliament to provide for measures relating to protection against coronavirus to apply to the ordinary general election for membership of the Scottish Parliament due to… |
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| Providing School Meals During the Coronavirus Pandemic | Children, Education, Equality, Social-economic rights |
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Updated guidance contains provisions for providing meals during the pandemic, including among other categories: “providing meals for pupils attending school,” “support for pupils who have to stay at home,” “providing… |
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| Free School Meals Payment Scheme | Children, Education, Equality, Social-economic rights |
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The Communities Minister and Education Minister announced a scheme to address free meals during school closures that “will see the introduction of direct payments to families whose children would usually… |
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| Revised Guidance for Schools in Wales: Supporting Children Eligible For Free School Meals | Children, Education, Equality, Social-economic rights |
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“This guidance sets out what schools should do to help ensure that pupils who receive free school meals continue to be provided with access to food whilst their statutory education… |
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| Outdoor Seating in Manchester to Become Smoke-Free Areas | Health, Social-economic rights |
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As measures were put into place in Manchester City “following the nationwide lockdown” in order “to allow businesses to trade on pavements and roads” and to enable the reopening of… |
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| Hundreds of Thousands More Laptops to Support Disadvantaged Pupils Learn at Home | Children, Civil and political rights, Education, Equality, Social-economic rights, Technology and digital rights |
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As “[p]art of the Get Help with Technology Programme,” an additional 300,000 laptops and tablets, in addition to the already “700,000 laptops and tablets . . . delivered to schools… |
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| COVID-19 Framework for Local Decision Making on Gypsy/Traveller Support | Social-economic rights, Water and sanitation |
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This document, which aims to “provide a framework for supporting Gypsy/Traveller communities living on public and private sites, and in unauthorised encampments in Scottish Local Authorities during the COVID-19 outbreak”… |
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| Domestic Violence: Detailed Information | Equality, Violence against women |
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The “Domestic Violence: Detailed Information” section of the United Kingdom’s government website contains a number of different documents on domestic abuse. These include the following: “Domestic abuse: how to get… |
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