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In November 2018, Phillip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty visited the Bollo youth club in Acton, west London. At the time of his visit, the Bollo was having to move its premises to a
stanley canada building half its original size and the club members were upset and worried about the transition.The Guardians social affairs editor, Robert Booth, talks to Anushka Asthana about how he and producer Joshua Kelly spent four months with two teenagers from the Bollo. They talk about the difficulties of life in an area riven by gang violence and huge inequality. Rising knife crime coincides with deep cuts to the UKs youth facilities. Since 2012, 760 youth clubs have closed and 4,500 youth worker jobs have been lost, according to analysis by Unison. Since 2010, English councils have slashed 62% from their spending on youth services 鈥?more than 拢700m. Plus: Helen Pidd discusses why schoo
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The details of the law underlying the case of Saeedi are complex 鈥?but its message is simple. Under EU law, member states have to provide minimum standards for the reception of asylum seekers.But the obligations themselves relate to another body of law that exists, at least philosophically, outside the boundaries of the economic imperatives of the European Union: social and economic rights.When these were attached to the Maastricht treaty in 1992 as the social chapter, Britain used its opt-out to avoid them becoming part of British law. On this basis, Mr Justice Cranston in the high court said that these rig
stanley cupe hts were not directly enforceable against the UK 鈥?that the charter was an aid to interpretation only.Now, on a concession by the home secretary, the court of appeal has ruled this week that the EU charter of fundamental rights can be directly relied upon in the UK. The charter combines the rights guaranteed by the European convention of human rights with the fundamen
stanley cup tal social rights set forth in the European social charter and in the community charter of fundamental social rights of workers. Whether this will be the new dawn for social and economic rights, or the last straw to break the back of the camel already overburdened with obligations under EU law, only time will tell.But both proponents and antagonists of social rights have always pointed out that rights form part of the unwritten constitutional underpinnings of the acquis communautaire of European law and tha
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