The COVID-19 crisis has exposed deep failings in the UK’s welfare system which should be addressed as part of a long-term plan to rethink and 'future-proof' the welfare state, according to a new IPPR report.
Apparently, measures taken by the government in response to coronavirus mean the UK is now on course to have the largest budget deficit since World War Two.
A Dutch court has ordered an immediate halt to a digital benefit fraud detection tool targeted at poor neighbourhoods in the Netherlands because it violated human rights norms.
Digital welfare states risk becoming Trojan Horses for hostility towards social protection and regulation, said the UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston.
Decades ago, I joined Amnesty International. Naively, in those days I thought human rights were something that needed to be defended in other countries.
As the UN Special Rapporteur on on extreme poverty and human rights unveiled his report last week, Quakers in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, issued a statement, calling on faith groups to engage with politicians on his findings.
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.