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27 May 19
The UK’s taxes on the whole are progressive – with council tax being the only one that is regressive, an economic think-tank has said.
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22 May 19
An “ideological” pursuit of austerity has replaced the Britain’s social safety net with a “harsh and uncaring ethos”, according to the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip...
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17 May 19
Council tax increasingly resembles poll tax - hitting the poor hardest - for Londoners and must be reformed, a think-tank has said.
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13 May 19
Councils will now have a legal duty to protect victims of domestic abuse, the prime minister has announced.
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10 May 19
A responsible government cannot balance its books on the backs of its poorest, most vulnerable citizens with little or no regard for them, says MP Frank Field.
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26 Apr 19
The supply of new homes will not be enough to solve the severe undersupply of housing in this country, says CIPFA’s Tim Reade.
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25 Apr 19
A record 1.6 million food bank parcels were given out in the UK last year, a charity has found.
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12 Apr 19
Local authority pothole cash, the army and apprenticeship figures and areas that have seen the biggest wage rises - all in the Numbers Game from the April 2019 edition of Public...
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5 Apr 19
How austerity and the dismantling of ‘Stalinist’ regional aid has divided an entire country. Peter Hetherington reports.
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4 Apr 19
Members of the Windrush Generation who wrongly lost jobs, benefits, homes and access to health care will have access to at least £200m compensation.
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4 Apr 19
Up to 67% of councils feel they lack the funding to meet new duties to tackle homelessness, analysis has found.
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1 Apr 19
Thirty per cent of the UK’s children - 4.1 million – are living on less than 60% of the current median income, according to official data.
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1 Apr 19
A year on from the implementation of the Homelessness Reduction Act, Neil Merrick looks at what’s changed on the streets.
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29 Mar 19
English councils are failing to use statutory powers to penalise rogue landlords in the private rented sector, a trade body has found.
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28 Mar 19
Government’s £386m spending on Jobcentre-based support for disabled people has not reduced the number who are out of work, the spending watchdog has found.
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19 Mar 19
Council leaders have urged the government to keep funding a programme that supports families with complex problems.
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15 Mar 19
Nearly all housing stock-owning councils in England plan to take advantage of the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap lift, analysis by the Local Government Association has revealed.
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8 Mar 19
Ending the benefits freeze in the 2019 would enable 200,000 people in the UK to break free from poverty, a charity has claimed.
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8 Mar 19
Now is the time to improve women's standing in the world of public finance, say Gillian Fawcett and Barbara Grunewald.
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7 Mar 19
The Home Office is “shirking” its responsibility in responding to the Windrush scandal and devolving the fall-out to local authorities, MPs have said.
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6 Mar 19
Few would question the aims of universal credit – to deliver a more streamlined welfare system that pays benefits directly to claimants. But a series of funding cuts and failings mean it may never...
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5 Mar 19
Residents in England face council tax increases of 4.5% in the coming year – the second highest increase in a decade, according to CIPFA analysis.
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4 Mar 19
Mental health funding cuts and a fragmented service provision are piling the pressure on public services. Kim Thomas reports.
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27 Feb 19
Housing associations, councils and the mayor of London have called on the government to hand over £5.2bn to protect housing in the capital against the impact of a no deal Brexit.
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27 Feb 19
Local government and communities must be given more control over how post-Brexit regional funding is spent, a think-tank has urged.