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UK News Briefing

January 8, 2021

One million Universal Credit claimants have deductions from their payments

Households are living on less than their assessed need due to deductions for an advance to cover the five week wait, finds Child Poverty Action Group.
January 8, 2021

'Unnecessarily cruel' decision to keep Julian Assange detained, says RSF

The decision is the latest in a long line of disproportionately punitive measures against Assange, says said RSF’s Rebecca Vincent.
January 7, 2021

Half a million renters in arrears in England as evictions set to resume

Citizens Advice is warning that without further help for renters an 'avalanche' of evictions could take place in the spring.
January 7, 2021

Essential workers face COVID-19 risk because of outdated safety rules, says TUC

Health and Safety Executive inspections must increase dramatically, to root out dangerous practice that spreads the virus, says the TUC.
January 6, 2021

Lockdown, learning, and the Bedroom Tax

Almost every child under 11 in the UK has been born under a Conservative government. There are books to be written about how multiple Conservative policies have increased and entrenched disadvantage for children over the past decade, but as we...
January 6, 2021

Food aid network calls for 'cash first' approach to hunger

Emergency food parcels cannot address worsening poverty, and their provision could contribute to the spread of COVID-19, says the Independent Food Aid Network.
January 6, 2021

Summer temperatures could rise faster in UK than average global rates, study finds

The UK could be facing a future of extreme heatwaves according to a new study in which scientists mapped almost 40 years’ worth of trends to project what lies ahead.
January 5, 2021

Employers should offer furlough to parents affected by school closures, says TUC

Self-employed working parents will also need help, and should have automatic access to the self-employed income support scheme, says the TUC.
January 5, 2021

Top 1% has almost £800 billion more wealth than official statistics show

Research by the Resolution Foundation finds that data held by the Office for National Statistics misses almost £800 billion of assets held by the wealthiest one per cent of households
January 4, 2021

Future of journalism at stake with Assange extradition decision, says RSF

The very future of journalism and press freedom is at stake in this case, says Reporters WIthout Borders.