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South Wales Argus
11 hours ago
- Business
- South Wales Argus
Jet2holidays supports apprenticeships with 1.4m funding
Jet2holidays has committed £1.4 million for 2025/26 through its Appoint an Apprentice scheme, now in its third year. The scheme supports charity partners, independent travel agents, and suppliers in recruiting and training new and existing talent. Miriam D'souli, HR director at and Jet2holidays, said: "The response following the launch of our Appoint an Apprentice scheme three years ago has been truly remarkable, and we have received some fantastic feedback. "We are delighted to be rolling out the scheme for a third year and to be pledging our biggest level of funding ever, so that we can support even more partners to recruit the next generation of talent." In its first year, Jet2holidays funded nearly £500,000 in apprenticeship levy funds, supporting 72 new apprentices across 50 companies. The company also provided £120,000 in funding to NSPCC.
Spectator
a day ago
- Politics
- Spectator
NSPCC refuses to apologise to Braverman
Baroness Casey's landmark review into Britain's grooming gangs published some truly horrific findings on Monday. The damning audit revealed that disproportionate numbers of Asian men were responsible for child sexual exploitation gangs and, shockingly, that the authorities failed to crack down on them for fear of being racist. It has prompted outrage from those who had been vilified for suggesting particular groups of people were more likely to be perpetrators than others – and Mr S is curious about whether the organisations who were quick to cry racism will now retract their criticism. It seems the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is not quite there yet. In May 2023, the organisation signed a joint letter – alongside 64 other groups – in which they huffed and puffed about comments made by Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak on grooming gangs, rebutting ex-Home Secretary Braverman's claim that perpetrators of group-based offending were 'almost all British-Pakistani'. (IPSO deemed this to be misleading, but did not uphold the complaint after it accepted the Mail on Sunday's clarification, published some days later. The press regulator added: 'The Committee was not asked to, and did not, make a finding on the general issue of whether these offences are disproportionately committed by British-Pakistani men.') The letter blasted the 'misinformation, racism and division' spread by the politicians and claimed that 'partial, inaccurate or divisive claims' about child sexual abuse undermined crime prevention. The organisations fumed: We are extremely concerned that recent public communications about child sexual abuse from Government Ministers have been based on misleading information and risk creating division, rather than keeping children safe. But recent events have altered the accepted facts somewhat. The complex picture by the Casey report suggests that, where ethnicity data was logged (in around a third of the cases of group-based child sexual exploitation) there was an overrepresentation of Asian and Pakistani men. Take Manchester, for example: according to the report, over a three-year period 52 per cent of suspects involved in multi-victim, multi-offender child sexual exploitation cases were Asian compared to 38 per cent who were white. And, as Mr S has written before, Pakistani men are up to five times as likely to be responsible for child sex grooming offences than the general population, according to figures from the Hydrant Programme, which investigates child sex abuse. Around one in 73 Muslim men over 16 have been prosecuted for 'group-localised child sexual exploitation' in Rotherham, research by academics from the universities of Reading and Chichester has revealed. None of this is enough to make the NSPCC row back, however. Instead the organisation pointed Mr S towards its statement made on Monday in response to Baroness Casey's review, which said: Any child can be a victim of child sexual exploitation and adults who commit these horrific crimes come from different backgrounds and communities. Perpetrators target the most vulnerable and accessible children in society and if we narrow our focus, we risk missing those hiding in plain sight, whatever their ethnicity. When Steerpike pressed the society, it said it had no plans to put forward a retraction or apology. How very interesting. Perhaps some of the letter's other signatories may choose to distance themselves from that rather dated memo instead. Talk about aging badly, eh?
Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Lauryn Goodman's 'feels sick' as her kids are dragged into trolls' hate campaign
Lauryn Goodmanhas become the victim of a hate campaign, which has seen trolls accuse the model of not feeding her children properly and mistreating Kairo and Kinara Lauryn Goodman"felt sick" after discovering trolls had doctored a cute photograph of her children - pasting the NSPCC logo on it and plastering it online. The slurs even accused Lauryn of failing to feed little Kairo and Kinara properly, allegations which left the model disgusted. The picture, complete with the NSPCC logo and the charity's phone number, ended up on notorious gossip website Tattle Life. It is one of the latest episodes amid a vile hate campaign Lauryn has faced since the story broke of her having had two children with married England footballer Kyle Walker. However, as Lauryn has been lauded for her work on social media, on which she helps other parents, and even styles herself as "a mumfluencer," the decision to share this particular image hit the woman especially hard. The mum of two said: "I couldn't eat, I felt sick and I was filled with anxiety. I got heart palpitations. I felt like I was having a panic attack... They said that Kairo and Kinara were being neglected and treated badly. They even said that I wasn't feeding my children properly and there were just no repercussions. It was disgusting and so horrible about them." The edited image appeared on Tattle Life alongside a giggling emoji. The anonymous troll, who Lauryn has described as a "keyboard warrior", had written: "It's one edit away from an NSPCC advert." Tattle Life has gripped more than 12 million unique users every month since it was founded eight years ago and became infamous for its savage attacks on influencers and celebrities. The site claims to allow "commentary and critiques" of people who "choose to monetise their personal life," but members of the public are allowed to post anonymously about anyone they want – saying anything they like, no matter how damaging. Victoria and David Beckham, TV presenter Stacey Solomon and Love Island's Molly-Mae Hague have also been victims of the keyboard warriors. But this week, founder Sebastian Bond, who had remained anonymous since the launch of the site, was finally unmasked. He went to some lengths to hide his identity and connection to the site, using different names and disguising his operations behind businesses based in locations across the world. It is reported tech entrepreneur Neil Sands and his wife Donna, who runs a popular clothing brand called Sylkie and is a fashion influencer with 26,000 Instagram followers, were awarded the damages for defamation and harassment after a court heard they were the target of a 45-page thread and were traumatised by the website for almost a decade. And Lauryn says she formed an alliance with the couple, having met through an Instagram chat group called Tattle Unmasked, which tries to reveal the identity of anonymous posters. Hailing her success, the TV personality, who has had difficulty with the website since 2020, told Mail Online: "I feel like it has impacted me in quite a lot of ways... It has contributed to the circus and the narrative of the saga with Kyle. "They are keyboard warriors, they feel so safe behind it and that they have anonymity. They take it too far and they say things that they would never, ever say to you if they saw you and they feel safe enough to go down this dark path without realising the repercussions on other people."
Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE How I helped unmask Tattle's King of Trolls, by LAURYN GOODMAN: Site's abuse of my children with Kyle Walker led to panic attacks and calls from social services. Then I joined a secret group - and got delicious revenge
The endearing photo showed two children lying together on a cosy rug with a book – taken from behind to conceal their faces. Proudly posting it on social media was nothing out of the ordinary for self-styled 'mumfluencer' Lauryn Goodman. But she could never have imagined the bile it would attract. She was devastated to discover that the snap had been doctored and posted on the notorious gossip website Tattle Life. The NSPCC logo had been pasted at the top of the photo, along with the children's charity's phone number.
Daily Mirror
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Dave Myers' widow says he would have 'wanted me to live my life'
Hairy Biker star Dave Myers' widow Liliana Orzac has spoken out about how she is honouring her late husband, who died last year, in a heartbreaking new interview Dave Myers' widow has shared the poignant way she is "honouring" her late husband, following his heartbreaking death last year. Liliana Orzac tied the knot with Dave in 2011 after they met while he was filming the first series of The Hairy Bikers in Romania. He subsequently became a stepfather to Liliana's two children from a previous relationship. On Tuesday (17 June), Liliana featured in a pre-recorded interview on BBC's The One Show, where she discussed her husband's passing and the book she is publishing about their love story. She disclosed her plans to get her motorbike license, something Dave had always wanted her to do, but she never felt the need to while he was alive. "Dave wanted me to take my biking license, but I never wanted to be separated from him, to have my own bike," she openly admitted. "I didn't need a license. I had Dave." "Dave would have wanted me to live my life. And I want to honour that. And these adventures that I'm going to have, are for him as well," Liliana added. She will participate in the second Dave Day, which initially took place in June 2024. The day saw thousands of bikers journey from London to Dave's home town of Barrow-in-Furness to pay tribute to the late star. Liliana organised this special event, which raised funds for NSPCC, reports Wales Online. Dave Day is set to take the UK by storm again this year, scheduled for Saturday, 21 June, and Sunday, 22 June, with its motorbike ride from London to Barrow, followed by a concert and various activities all in aid of NSPCC Childline and CancerCare NW. In an emotional interview, Liliana reflected on penning 'My Life With and Without My Hairy Biker', aiming to share what a "wonderful person" her late husband was. "My heart was broken and this book was a way of me putting my heart back together, piece by piece. By telling the world what a wonderful person he was," she expressed. Liliana further commented: "As long as I talk about him, as long as people still talk about him, as long as he is remembered, he is still alive."
