Category - Poverty

A single mother who brought a legal challenge against the government over its “ridiculous” universal credit childcare payments system has won her case after a high court judge ruled it to be discriminatory and unlawful. Read the full article on this...

Children’s commissioner for England Anne Longfield has delivered a stern rebuke to politicians over a lack of action to address child poverty.
Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People Now

Suspension of cap on universal credit would cost less than summer’s ‘eat out to help out’ scheme
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Landlords’ group calls for more government help because of Covid ‘debt crisis’
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UNICEF says it is the first time in its 70-year history that it has responded to a UK “domestic emergency”.
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Unions have described companies who pay their chief executives huge multiples of their workers average salary as obscene, and called on ministers and shareholders to act to end the “runaway train” of inequality in corporate Britain. A report by the...

The more deprived the area, the higher the mortality rate – for all causes of death. We have to rebuild a fairer society.
Read the full article on this link to The Guardian