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15 December 2016

Delayed transfers of care: does geography matter?

There seems to be a 20 fold difference in delayed discharges from hospital between the best and worst performing councils. We’ve asked the Department of Health for more information.

14 December 2016

Prime Minister's Questions, factchecked

We've factchecked social care funding, UK development aid spending and mobile phone coverage.

14 December 2016

Mobile phone coverage

Is the UK really worse than Romania for mobile phone signal? A recently published report says yes.

14 December 2016

UK development aid spending

The aid budget is going up by a lot, but it isn’t set to have "more than doubled" from 2010-2020.

14 December 2016

A £2.5 billion shortfall in social care funding?

The Local Government Association, and several other expert groups, predict a significant gap in funding for adult social care by 2020.

14 December 2016

Social care funding

The Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition clashed over social care spending at PMQs today. We’ve investigated.

13 December 2016

Immigrants learning English

It’s true that older immigrants make up a disproportionate number of those who have poor English, although they’re still in a small minority.

13 December 2016

Mixed evidence on the link between term time holidays and attainment

Department for Education research shows a link between missing school and lower pupil attainment, but this isn’t the case for all types of absence.

12 December 2016

Robots and the future of your job

The Bank of England has estimated that 15 million jobs in the UK could be automated over the next few decades, equivalent to just under half the jobs in the UK right now.

9 December 2016

BBC Question Time, factchecked

We factchecked claims about Article 50 and the EU budget, German car exports, NHS trusts, deaths after pregnancy and corporate tax rates.

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Delayed transfers of care: does geography matter?

Prime Minister's Questions, factchecked

Mobile phone coverage

UK development aid spending

A £2.5 billion shortfall in social care funding?

Social care funding

Immigrants learning English

Mixed evidence on the link between term time holidays and attainment

Robots and the future of your job

BBC Question Time, factchecked

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