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