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welfare cuts

July 31, 2019

Scottish Welfare Fund annual spend hits £35 million.

The Scottish Welfare Fund is part of an annual package of over £125 million to mitigate against the impact of UK Government welfare cuts.
May 7, 2019

Applications flood in for Scotland's new Early Learning Payment

For a two-child family the Best Start Grant package will provide total support of £1900, which is £1400 more than they would get under the previous UK system.
July 25, 2018

Quakers ride from Cumbria to Downing Street for equality and the common good

Inspired by faith and disturbed by rising social and economic inequality, a group of Quakers are taking to their bikes and mobility scooters to ride from Cumbria to deliver a message to 10 Downing Street.
March 7, 2018

Call for Household Debt Jubilee to address billions of ‘unjust’ debt

Anti-poverty campaigners are calling for a Household Debt Jubilee to release low income households from billions of ‘unjust’ consumer credit debt.
February 22, 2018

Resolution Foundation predicts rise in income inequality

The Resolution Foundation says policy decisions look set to drive living standards of low and middle income families down and inequality up in the years ahead.
September 4, 2017

NUJ endorses UN censure of UK welfare cuts

The National Union of Journalists' Disabled Members’ Council has supported calls on the UK government to take urgent action to address the human rights violations of deaf and disabled people.
November 6, 2015

Remembrance Day: Why should former soldiers have to rely on charity?

I recently blogged about how the Royal British Legion – who produce the red poppy – insist that Remembrance Day should honour only the British military dead.
July 24, 2015

Duncan Smith reply to letter on welfare changes ‘misses point’, say authors
July 9, 2015

Details of welfare cuts and the impact of the budget on the most vulnerable

It would be quite misleading to describe the 2015 Summer Budget as a “one nation budget” or as favouring “working families” and “giving the nation a pay rise” in any meaningful sense, says Simon Barrow. On the contrary it hits low income households and disabled people, and will increase further Britain’s alarming levels of inequality.
July 8, 2015

Nationwide protests on welfare and disability as budget looms

Demonstrations will take place across Britain today, as Chancellor Osborne prepares further swingeing cuts targeted on low income families and disabled people.