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Because of their own experiences of school, or for whatever reason, many parents have little contact with schools. We have all seen evidence of the fact that their children's education, and the education of the whole community, suffers because of that.
Since the launch, an increasing number of older people who are abused by their neighbours have contacted us. Those older people put up with difficult behaviour from their neighbours, such as physical assault and verbal abuse and they are frightened to go out of their front door.
The Prime Minister, in response to the 1.8 million people who have signed the online petition, stated that"stories about possible costs are simply not credible, since they depend on so many variables yet to be investigated, never mind decided."
I think that the recent increase is due mainly to European Union enlargement. Ten countries have come online, and there is a build-up of people and so on.
We found evidence that employers may be reluctant to contact potential sources of information in case they found their recruitment and employment practice being investigated and found to be at fault.