Tesco is now the first supermarket to offer paid ‘safe leave’ for victims of domestic abuse
Supermarket chain Tesco is not only Britain’s largest private-sector employer, it’s also now the first to offer paid “safe leave” for domestic abuse victims.
It has also trained managers to spot signs of domestic abuse and help direct people to the appropriate support services. And importantly, Tesco will not require people to provide formal evidence to access safe leave.
The policy gives employees up to three days of flexible paid leave for things like attending court hearings, arranging emergency housing, changing locks, separating finances, and more.
Why is this good news? Domestic violence and abuse impact the lives of an estimated one in five women. People who need support and safety should be able to access it — from their employers, too. Tesco is not only providing that support tangibly, but in introducing and offering it in the first place.
Virginia officially started automatically sealing old criminal records.Once it’s fully rolled out, an estimated 415,000 residents are expected to qualify for full or partial sealing once the framework is fully rolled out, impacting certain misdemeanor convictions, deferred dispositions, and non-convictions.
Child mortality has declined in every region in the world
In 1950, globally nearly one in every four children died before their fifth birthday — in Africa, it was one in three. Since then, child mortality rates have declined in every part of the world.
In Africa and Oceania, child mortality rates declined 5-fold, in Asia 10-fold, and in Europe about 27-fold.
Globally, child mortality has declined to 3.5% on average, meaning about 4.7 million children under five years old died in 2025, or 13,000 every day — far, far too many. This chart proves progress is possible, and we can continue making it.
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