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David Cohen

David Cohen is the Independent's award winning Investigations Editor and Campaigns Editor

<p>Group executive chef Wilfred Mtshali (centre) with Dzunisani Lubisi, trainee chef (left) and Freedom Masinga, former trainee chef and chef de partie at Little Bush Camp</p>
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The safari lodge training local school leavers to be world-class chefs

World

An English millionaire, royal ‘connections’ and a paradise island row

<p>Tesco boss Ken Murphy wants complete overhaul of apprenticeships to boost the workforce </p>
Business

Tesco boss: Reboot apprenticeships to kickstart economy

<p>David Cameron is chair of the NCS Board of Patrons </p>
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Head of Cameron’s legacy project paid £165k despite pay review pledge

Business

Once jobless youths talk about how our campaign changed their lives

<p>Britain now has 13,793 fewer pubs, bars, hotels, restaurants, nightclubs and other licensed premises than it had three years ago</p>
UK Politics

Revealed: The great Brexit pubs and clubs shutdown

<p>£100m of public money had been used to part-fund MBA courses between 2017 and 2022</p>
Business

U-turn on crackdown to stop repeat of £100m apprenticeship rip-off

Home News

On the Breadline: £1m in grants given out as part of our £4m campaign

<p>‘You quickly begin to understand that you and your children cannot enjoy your life’ </p>
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‘I have to do my sums just to take my children on the bus’

<p>‘Use of the levy to part-fund MBAs at business schools is only the tip of the iceberg,’ says think tank</p>
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Revealed: The £1bn apprenticeship rip-off

<p>The apprenticeship levy applies to employers in England who have an annual pay bill above £3m</p>
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Independent victory as ministers pledge crackdown on MBA apprentices

<p>Around £300m of the apprenticeship levy has been used to fund 21,000 senior leadership apprenticeships in the five years to August 2022</p>
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Taxpayers funding university courses for executives on £100,000 a year

<p>Mark Constantine, co-founder of Lush, wants the scheme replaced </p>
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High street firms demand end to ‘lose-lose’ apprenticeship levy

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High street firms demand end to ‘lose-lose’ apprenticeship levy

<p>Mark Constantine, co-founder of Lush, wants the scheme replaced </p>
<p>The levy raises around £2.46bn a year. It was introduced by David Cameron in 2017 </p>
Education

Explained: What is apprenticeship levy and why is it controversial?

From greenlighting HS2 to refining the apprenticeship levy, here’s what business needs, says Adam Marshall
Home News

100,000 miss out as unis use taxpayer money on executive courses

The Mayor of London has unveiled an emergency scheme to extend free school meals to every primary school pupil in the capital for one year (Ben Birchall/PA)
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Public agree that government should extend free school meals

<p>A school canteen chef serves children during their lunch break </p>
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Council promises free school meals for secondary pupils in poverty

<p>A school canteen chef serves children during their lunch break </p>
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Council promises free school meals for secondary pupils in poverty

<p>The announcement marks a major victory for The Independent’s Feed the Future campaign </p>
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Free school meals for every primary school pupil in London

<p>Susan Rudnik is founder and CEO of Latimer Community Art Therapy, which has provided the girl with support </p>
Home News

Girl, 7, eats so little in cost of living crisis ‘you can see ribcage’

<p>Our grants are the biggest disbursement to charities from any UK newsgroup in response to the cost of living crisis</p>
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We give out £2.7m in grants as our campaign total hits £4m

<p>Maeve Gumbley, therapy team manager for Unlocking Potential, which is backed by our appeal </p>
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‘A godsend’: Mother hails charity helping son thanks to your donations

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Nick Grimshaw backs our appeal as Amazon delivers winter warmer packs

<p>Lord Lebedev distributes food at St Paul’s Primary School in Whitechapel </p>
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Readers’ donations boosts our cost of living appeal to over £3.6m

<p>Singer Rita Ora has backed our campaign </p>
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Our Christmas appeal hits £3.5m as Rita Ora calls on people to donate

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Simon Pegg and Adam Hills back our £3.3m cost of living appeal

<p>Lord Lebedev distributes food at St Paul’s Primary School in Whitechapel </p>
Home News

Readers’ donations boosts our cost of living appeal to over £3.6m

<p>Singer Rita Ora has backed our campaign </p>
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Our Christmas appeal hits £3.5m as Rita Ora calls on people to donate

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Simon Pegg and Adam Hills back our £3.3m cost of living appeal

<p>Dame Emma Thompson has backed our Christmas appeal </p>
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Emma Thompson backs our appeal to help families on the breadline

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Emma Thompson backs our appeal to help families on the breadline

<p>Dame Emma Thompson has backed our Christmas appeal </p>
<p>Andy Murray has backed our Christmas appeal </p>
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Appeal hits £3.3m as Murray calls on people to ‘make a difference’

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Our Christmas appeal hits £3.2m to help families on the breadline

<p>Sean Mendez, founder/CEO of Solidarity Sports</p>
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‘Every week we run out of money’ says sports charity helping Londoners

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London mayor Sadiq Khan backs our Christmas cost of living appeal

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London mayor Sadiq Khan backs our Christmas cost of living appeal

<p>Our Christmas campaign is aimed at people struggling in the cost of living crisis </p>
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Cost of living campaign passes £3m thanks to £500k from Neptune Energy

<p>The money will be used to fund the Felix Project and supply fridges and freezers to hundreds of charities in London and the rest of the UK</p>
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King and Prince’s Trust back Felix, earmarked beneficiary of appeal

<p>David Morrissey is urging people to help those in need </p>
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David Morrissey backs our campaign and EECF donates £42,000

<p>The Conduit Club hosted an event of donors for<em> The Independent</em>’s Breadline appeal with The Childhood Trust</p>
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Charity choir event raises more than £20,000 for our Christmas appeal

<p>Hugh Grosvenor, the seventh Duke of Westminster </p>
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Duke of Westminster backs our Christmas appeal with £100,000 donation

News

On The Breadline: Communities our cost of living campaign will help

<p>The money raised with our new campaign partner will help fund groups that support disadvantaged children in London </p>
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The Childhood Trust backs our Christmas appeal with £500,000 donation

<p>Sophie Livingstone (left) CEO of Little Village, and session lead Sandra Vasiliauskaite (centre) help single mother Alice </p>
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Parents making ‘impossible choices between nappies and food’

<p>Olivia Colman has backed The Independent’s Christmas appeal </p>
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The Independent’s cost of living appeal hits £2m in just four days

<p>Sir Lenny Henry is supporting our Christmas appeal </p>
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Lenny Henry backs our campaign to tackle cost of living crisis

<p>Lord Lebedev distributes food to families at St Paul’s Primary School in Whitechapel, east London</p>
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How we’re helping families struggling to put food on the table

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How we’re helping families struggling to put food on the table

<p>Lord Lebedev distributes food to families at St Paul’s Primary School in Whitechapel, east London</p>
<p>Candice and her daughter Leticia-May </p>
Home News

Support our campaign to tackle the cost of living crisis

<p>Jack Price. of Lives Not Knives, at the organisation’s headquarters in Croydon, south London</p>
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Schoolchildren and parents shoplifting food to quell hunger

<p>Dream fulfilled: Razzia has succeeded in science at a young age and says eating healthily was critical to her achievements </p>
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‘The sky is the limit’: From free school meals to top earner at 27

<p>‘The government should urgently extend free school meals to all families in poverty’ </p>
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‘Our lives would be a complete disaster without free school meals’

<p>‘The government should urgently extend free school meals to all families in poverty’ </p>
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‘Our lives would be a complete disaster without free school meals’

<p>Michele Price, a partner at Gunnercooke law firm </p>
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‘I wouldn’t be where I am without them’: Why we need free school meals

<p>’Our younger people are experiencing an acute crisis of hunger and food insecurity’ </p>
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Call to extend free school meals to stop ‘calamitous hunger crisis’

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Number of children arriving at school hungry on rise, teachers warn

<p>Felicia Boshorin, CEO of Spring Community Hub charity and food bank, prepares to hand out vegetables</p>
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‘I feel trapped’: The mothers going without food so their children eat

<p>800,000 children across England face poverty but are not able to get free school meals </p>
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New figures show extent of hunger crisis facing schoolchildren

<p>’Children should be given the support they need to do well when they need it most’ (Ben Birchall/PA)</p>
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Charities call on government to increase number of free school meals

<p>Parents queue for food outside St Mary’s RC Primary School in Battersea, south London </p>
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‘I can’t eat lunch and feed my children’: Rise of the school food bank

<p>Mandeville Primary School in London, where all students recieve a free school meal </p>
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Children face a hunger crisis – we need more free school meals

<p>40 young people have bagged jobs through our Skill Up Step Up scheme </p>
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Forty unemployed young people hired after Skill Up Step Up training

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Nando’s backs our campaign as jobs pledged passes 300 mark

<p>Jane Byam Shaw has received an OBE in the 2022 Queen’s birthday honours</p>
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Trustee of The Independent’s campaign charity partner awarded OBE

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Trustee of The Independent’s campaign charity partner awarded OBE

<p>Jane Byam Shaw has received an OBE in the 2022 Queen’s birthday honours</p>
<p>The duke and duchess speak to staff at the DEC offices in London on Thursday </p>
Europe

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge mark Ukraine appeal milestone

Europe

Rob Rinder and Jerome Flynn back our Refugees Welcome appeal

<p>Maksym Yali, 42, professor of international relations, with his mother, Kateryna, a year ago </p>
Europe

How I saved my mother and sister from the hell of Mariupol

<p>There have been more than 40,000 applications made for visas by Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war</p>
Europe

Ashley Jensen and Angela Hartnett back Refugees Welcome appeal

<p>There have been more than 40,000 applications made for visas by Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war</p>
Europe

Ashley Jensen and Angela Hartnett back Refugees Welcome appeal

Europe

How Ukrainian pets bring solace for some refugees but also heartbreak

Europe

Ukrainian refugee crisis realities at the Romanian-Hungarian border

<p>A Ukrainian mother holds her daughter as they weep at Záhony train station on the Hungarian/Ukrainian border as a volunteer attempts to console them</p>
Europe

‘“I have come from hell on earth’: Ukrainian refugees reaching Hungary

Europe

Myleene Klass and Paul O’Grady add support to Refugees Welcome appeal

<p>A woman fleeing Russian invasion of Ukraine hugs a child at a temporary camp in Przemysl, Poland, February 28, 2022. </p>
Europe

Donate to our Refugees Welcome appeal to help the children of Ukraine

Europe

“I felt very, very alone,”: Plight of those staying behind in Ukraine

Europe

Mariella Frostrup makes plea as she backs our Refugees Welcome appeal

<p>Ukrainian civilians who have fled the Russian invasion in Ukraine cross the border into Poland at Kroscienko</p>
Europe

Meet the mothers and children sacrificing everything to flee Ukraine

<p>Tetyana Nikiforovna Vatazhok, 87, (left) and Zhanna Dmytrivna Zabrodska, 85, (centre) at Kroscienko on the Polish Ukraine border </p>
Europe

Meet the grandparents trying to escape the war in Ukraine

<p>Destination unknown: refugees arrive at Przemysl train station in Poland</p>
Europe

Meet the people trying to save fleeing Ukrainians at the Polish border

<p>A Ukrainian refugee from Odesa hugs two children as they arrive in Athens by bus </p>
Europe

Joely Richardson and Erin O’Connor add support to our Ukraine appeal

<p>A woman hugs her child as she tries to board a train to Poland at a station in Lviv, west Ukraine </p>
Europe

Refugees Welcome: Dom Joly and Natasha Kaplinsky support our appeal

Europe

Refugees Welcome: The government to match donations from campaign

<p>People waiting for a bus to take them out of Kyiv, Ukraine</p>
Home News

Refugees Welcome: Charities back our call for action on refugee crisis

<p>Jo Rice, chief executive and founder of Resurgo, pictured in conversation with a trainee near their west London offices</p>
Home News

Charity that upskills jobless youths joins our campaign

<p>The NCS received £1.3 billion of taxpayer’s money since 2011 </p>
UK Politics

‘Yours, DC’: How Cameron lobbied minister over legacy project

<p>People waiting for a bus to take them out of Kyiv, Ukraine</p>
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Refugees Welcome: Charities back our call for action on refugee crisis

<p>Jo Rice, chief executive and founder of Resurgo, pictured in conversation with a trainee near their west London offices</p>
Home News

Charity that upskills jobless youths joins our campaign

<p>The NCS received £1.3 billion of taxpayer’s money since 2011 </p>
UK Politics

‘Yours, DC’: How Cameron lobbied minister over legacy project

<p>Cameron’s National Citizen Service was the subject of an investigation by The Independent </p>
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Cameron’s legacy project has budget slashed after Independent expose

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Fourth partner to upskill young unemployed joins campaign

<p>Unemployment rose in London during the pandemic </p>
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Jobs pledged for more than 100 young adults as employers back campaign

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Firms pledge jobs to young people as part of our Christmas appeal

<p>Tyreek Kasim, pictured at the west London offices of the BBC where he is an apprentice</p>
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Skill Up Step Up: ‘Never give up,’ says teenager who landed BBC job

<p>Trainee Steve at the offices of City Gateway in east London</p>
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Skill Up Step Up: The new recruits being helped onto the career ladder

News

The Independent launches Skill Up Step Up campaign to support London's jobless youth

<p>The teenager now works for hospitality firm Compass </p>
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The remarkable story of Devonte: From school dropout to the O2

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