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Comprehensive Spending Review

October 9, 2020

No medals, badges or claps, just pay nurses fairly, says RCN leader

The leader of the UK’s nursing union has accused politicians of "hollow" clapping and letting down nursing staff after the first phase of the pandemic.
September 26, 2020

Quakers call for spending on green and just recovery

Quakers in Britain have set out their priorities in a submission to the government's Comprehensive Spending Review in the areas of climate change, criminal justice, defence, education, immigration and charities.
August 14, 2020

UK Government plans to end rough sleeping in England could unravel within months, says new report

A new report from the Salvation Army outlines how homelessness and rough sleeping will soar if the Government fails to properly fund homelessness support services in this Autumn's Comprehensive Spending Review.
July 10, 2019

Welsh government’s positive response to affordable housing review welcomed

Following a comprehensive review of affordable housing supply in Wales by an independent panel, the Welsh Government has accepted all but one of its recommendations.
February 27, 2019

First 1000 days of life report published

The first 1000 days of life, from conception to age two, is a critical phase during which the foundations of a child's development are laid.
July 2, 2013

Posh boys or bad governance? Invective versus dialogue

“Two arrogant posh boys who don't know the price of milk” Nadine Dorries' opinion of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor gave every appearance of welling up from a deep reservoir of personal peeve. But last week, a Conservative MP expressed an almost identical opinion to me.
June 27, 2013

The callous and divisive politics of the Comprehensive Spending Review

Yesterday's Comprehensive Spending Review was a display of politics at its most callous and divisive.
June 27, 2013

Housing charity responds to Comprehensive Spending Review

Housing benefit could face further cuts from 2015, George Osborne announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review yesterday (26 June 2013).
March 27, 2011

It is the government which is in deficit (and cuts) denial

Listening to the the suave propaganda pouring from the lips of Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander, and other government apologists over the last 24 hours, I am struck by the persistence of the 'deficit denial' theme - and the fact that it seems to have won over a significant portion of the public. This does not make what is being said any more factually sound, ethically substantial or intellectually rigorous, of course.
March 24, 2011

Budget analysis: short-term scraps, long-term damage

Do not be fooled by the scraps from the table in Chancellor Osborne's 2011 budget, says Urban Forum chief executive, Toby Blume, analysing the implications for charities, enterprise, environment, planning and poverty. Sadly, the real damage has already been done.