Daily roundup 17 June: Funding theft, service closure, and refugee children

A Department for Education worker who stole £1.1m earmarked for youth sports projects and used it to buy a luxury flat has been jailed for more than three years. The London Evening Standard reports that Edward Fowkes Chapman, aged 37, set up two companies and authorised seven separate payments to them over a two-year period. The money was taken from a budget he was in charge of to fund projects to promote youth sports and tackle obesity.?


??Children's literacy could be damaged if Greenwich Council goes ahead with plans to close the borough's mobile reading service, unions claim. The warning by Unite comes as councillors at the authority get set to debate the proposals, which would lead to an annual £126,000 saving.


?Drunk England football fans have been accused of mocking refugee children in France after paying one to drink a pint of beer and others to "fight" over handfuls of coins. The Telegraph reports a group of street children in Lille, aged between seven and nine, were repeatedly goaded by supporters attending the football European championships in France.


??A father from Kent forced ITV's daytime show Loose Women to be taken off air in protest over the programme's "sexism" and the child support system. Kent Online reports Adam Orriss and fellow protestors from the Fathers4Justice campaign stormed the set in the middle of broadcast earlier this week. The group said the protest launched a boycott of the child support system until fathers are given equal rights over their children.
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??Three children were among a group of 11 migrants discovered in the back of a lorry in East London, police have said. ITV News reports that authorities in Havering arrested eight adult migrants on suspicion of illegal entry into the UK, while the three children were taken into police protection.?


There are 50,000 faith-based charities in England and Wales, with a combined income of £16.3bn, according to analysis by think-tank NPC. This income is concentrated in a relatively small number of large charities with revenue over £10m. This is particularly the case for Christian charities.