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March 14, 2018

One and a half million more children in poverty by 2022, finds EHRC

An anlaysis of changes to tax and social security from 2010 to 2018 finds children will be hit hardest, with an extra 1.5 million in poverty by 2022.
March 10, 2018

Decimation of Trading Standards services leaving older people open to fraud, says Age UK

Dramatic cuts in Trading Standards budgets since 2010 are leaving millions of older people at greater risk of becoming victims of fraud, according to a new policy report by Age UK.
March 6, 2018

Cuts to youth offending budgets 'putting crime reduction work at risk'

Councils have still not received their youth justice grant allocations for 2018/19, despite having to set budgets within the next two weeks.
February 8, 2018

Schools in England 'forced to cut teachers to make ends meet'

Real terms cuts to school funding since 2015 have led to a big reduction in the number of secondary teachers, teaching assistants and support staff in England, says research published by the School Cuts alliance of education unions.
January 18, 2018

Austerity, welfare reform, and deaths

The suggestion that people in the UK have died, and are dying, because of government policies is sometimes dismissed as extreme.
January 13, 2018

Firefighters' anger at 40 per cent rise in London fire deaths

The Fire Brigades Union says its London members are deeply upset and angry to learn that the number of people killed in fires has risen sharply in the capital, according to the latest figures, which do not include the 71 victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
December 15, 2017

Older carers 'left to fill the gap as our social care system crumbles'

New figures from Age UK reveal that millions of older people are being left to prop up the country’s disintegrating care system, with those aged 65 and over providing nearly 54 million hours of unpaid care each week in England during 2016.
December 13, 2017

Law Society launches High Court challenge over latest legal aid cut

A legal challenge has been launched by the Law Society of England and Wales in a bid to halt cuts to fees paid to criminal defence lawyers.
December 11, 2017

Mental health patients held in police cells due to lack of hospital beds

Police forces are making decisions to hold people with mental health issues in custody beyond the statutory maximum due to difficulties accessing hospital beds.
December 8, 2017

The RCN responds to Jeremy Hunt's letter on nurses' pay

The Royal College of Nursing says "Nurses should not be expected in effect to fund their own pay rise."