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4 Nov 19
The government’s pledge to lift the benefit freeze is not enough to “turn back the rising tide of poverty”, charities have said.
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31 Oct 19
The number of rough sleepers in London has boomed in the past year and now stands at almost 4,000 according to an analysis of official data released by the Greater London Authority today.
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24 Oct 19
Seaside towns dominate the latest rankings for personal bankruptcies, adding to evidence that coastal regions are failing to keep pace with the rest of the economy.
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23 Oct 19
Investment might be flowing into local areas but poverty and inequality persist. ‘New municipalism’ is a term that has emerged as an answer to improving local economic development. Dominic Brady...
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22 Oct 19
Two thirds of young, single parents will be worse off as they switch to Universal Credit, a think-tank has warned.
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15 Oct 19
The vast majority of British people think hunger is a problem in the UK and Westminster is to blame, according to a charity.
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11 Oct 19
Westminster cannot properly reform welfare without addressing the lack of support given to vital informal carers, says Bright Blue’s Anvar Sarygulov.
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8 Oct 19
More than 700 million people worldwide still live in extreme poverty but it is possible to leverage scarce development resources to help change that, says the World Bank’s Akihiko Nishio.
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1 Oct 19
Groups have called for the housing crisis to be fixed after official figures revealed two homeless people died in England and Wales each day last year.
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1 Oct 19
The housing crisis is one of the UK’s biggest domestic policy issues, delegates at a Conservative conference fringe have heard.
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30 Sep 19
More than half of young people now go to university but more must be done to improve diversity in higher education, according to university leaders and the education secretary.
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25 Sep 19
Food bank use has risen where Universal Credit has been in operation for at least a year – and the five-week wait appears to be a key part of the problem, says The Trussell Trust’s Sumi...
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20 Sep 19
The UK faces “worsening performance and widening divisions” between areas without a strategy to hand down power to the regions, an inquiry has warned.
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16 Sep 19
Rising global hunger, aid shortfalls and baby foods full of sugar - all in the Numbers Game from the September 2019 edition of Public Finance magazine.
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13 Sep 19
The number of homeless households in England rose 11% between the last quarter of 2018 and the first three months of this year, government figures have revealed.
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6 Sep 19
The government is looking for an organisation to run pilots to help it improve local authority data collection on homelessness.
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6 Sep 19
Ministers should make extra public health funding available to councils based on demographic factors, a think-tank has suggested.
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6 Sep 19
After years of progress on closing the gap in educational attainment, it looks like poorer pupils are starting to fall further behind their more wealthy peers, says Education Policy...
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5 Sep 19
The Scottish Government has announced plans to become a country with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045.
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4 Sep 19
International aid spending by the UK government will increase in real terms, chancellor Sajid Javid has announced.
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29 Aug 19
A government scheme to “turbo charge” private investment in developing countries’ infrastructure projects has been criticised as making an “opportunity” out of human suffering.
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14 Aug 19
Unemployment in Scotland has risen by 0.4 percentage points, although it remains below the rate in the UK as a whole, according to the latest data.
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14 Aug 19
An average of one homeless person died every 19 hours in the last six months in the UK, research has found.
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14 Aug 19
By going beyond clinical care the health service can improve the socio-economic conditions of people in local communities, a charity has stressed.
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6 Aug 19
More than half the top 1% of UK income taxpayers live in London and the south east and are “overwhelmingly male and middle aged”, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.