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Texas’ foster care system is plagued with problems. Here’s how lawmakers want to fix it.

Texas legislators are considering increasing the Department of Family and Protective Services’ budget, giving extended relatives more money to care for kids and notifying the subjects of child abuse investigations of their rights.

The Texas Tribune

Greater Manchester Police Federation backs calls for cops to get new powers to charge suspects

“The current delays are having a negative impact on officers’ workloads"

Manchester Evening News

Rejected before, Vallas aims to win over a city ‘in crisis’ — promising to get it ‘back on track’

After three unsuccessful previous runs for public office, the former Chicago Public Schools chief takes his tough-on-crime message to the city’s mayoral runoff.

Chicago Sun-Times

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What’s happening to migrant students once they enter Chicago schools?

CPS said it’s working with city and state officials to enroll kids in schools located near city shelters. But sources tell WBEZ that neighborhood schools often lack the staff and curriculum to work with non-English-speaking students.

Chicago Sun-Times

The mental toll on guaranteed income pilot applicants, mayoral candidates’ last push and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

GMP's top cop has called for police to be given powers to charge suspects, but one leading barrister says that's 'plain daft'

Chief Constable Stephen Watson is one of three police chiefs calling for the controversial change to help fix a backlog of cases

Manchester Evening News

Homophobic nature of 'Chelsea rent boy' chant explained after explosion of incidents

The 'rent boy' chant has been heard at at least four Premier League and FA Cup games within the first two months of 2023, with Chelsea Pride hoping to educate supporters on why it is homophobic

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Police should be given power to charge suspects, say senior officers in England

Police chiefs say delays in charging suspects are leading to backlogs of cases and guilty walking free

The Guardian - UK

The scramble to help newly arrived migrants, R. Kelly’s sentence and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

CPS 2023-24 calendar once again starts before Labor Day, gives two-week winter break

Some parents have complained that the earlier start cuts into the end of the summer and some planned vacations.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot campaign’s email fail comes to light, ‘South Side’ canceled and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

CPS spending $76 million to upgrade aging security cameras

High-definition cameras will be installed at 311 district schools over three years, CPS announced Wednesday, including at Benito Juarez High School in Pilsen, where two students were killed after school last year.

Chicago Sun-Times

Rape victims 'failed' as just 2.4 per cent of completed cases in Greater Manchester end in charge or summons

'We cannot see how these figures show anything but a failure of victims and survivors'

Manchester Evening News

Lightfoot campaign sent 9,900 emails seeking support from CPS, City Colleges staff, documents show

Among the emails were four to City Colleges of Chicago Chancellor Juan Salgado — who reports to the mayor — at his work email address inviting him to a Lightfoot campaign event.

Chicago Sun-Times

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CPS teams up with NASCAR for design competition, race car-themed curriculum

The competition will challenge 22,000 K-12 students in 43 STEM schools to design a driving helmet. CPS will also integrate a NASCAR-themed science unit into its 8th-grade curriculum next year.

The Conversation

Environmental activists on trial barred from citing climate crisis in their defence

Four Insulate Britain activists recently stood trial at Inner London crown court on a public nuisance charge for blocking a busy London junction in October 2021. Like Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain is waging a civil disobedience campaign to force the government to implement policies to tackle climate change and…

Manchester Evening News

Cops who arrested man just hours before his death could face criminal charges

Gareth Roper died in the first hours of 2022

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicagoans respond to property tax hikes, R. Kelly’s new trial request denied and more in your Chicago news roundup

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The Independent UK

Priest accuses Government of censoring ‘silent prayers’ near abortion clinic

Fr Sean Gough and charity volunteer Isabel Vaughan-Spruce both spoke out against ‘censorship zones’ after criminal charges against them were dropped.

The Independent UK

Convictions under ‘racist’ gang law to be monitored by CPS for first time

Nearly 60 per cent of young men serving 15 years or more in prison for joint enterprise convictions are Black, Asian or from minority ethnic backgrounds

The Texas Tribune

Texas should tell parents their rights when it investigates child abuse claims, lawmaker proposes

Most reports of child abuse or neglect turn out to be unfounded. But while under investigation, parents with little understanding of their rights or the process often make decisions that could impact the fate of their families.

The Guardian - UK

Joint enterprise prosecutions to be monitored for racial bias

CPS agrees, following legal challenge, to record age and race data after studies show young men and black boys suffer most

Daily Mirror

New clues in search for dad who mysteriously vanished on Valentine's Day 16 years ago

Sajid Saddique has not been seen since he left his home in Bradford, Yorkshire, in 2007, leaving wife Asma and three daughters fighting for justice and answers 16 years after he disappeared

Daily Mirror

Man 'randomly selected' homeless person to stab to death while he slept in doorway

Egidijus Kotovas "randomly selected" a homeless person who had been sleeping in a doorway to try and stab to death in a vicious attack that nearly took their life, a court heard

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot steps up attacks on Johnson, hoping to purge his surge: ‘Brandon’s not better. Brandon is bad for Chicago’

With money pouring into his $3.1 million campaign fund, Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson has been blanketing the airwaves with commercials touting his plan to “invest in people.” The mayor counters that his tax-the-rich plan will drive business from the city.

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