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November 4, 2019

UNHCR troubled by latest US refugee resettlement cut

The US has decided to reduce substantially the number of refugees it will admit for resettlement in the United States over the coming year.
November 4, 2019

No Government should accept consequences of two child limit, says Committee

The Government’s justifications for its policy to restrict support to two children are based on assumptions that “simply do not hold true” says the Work and Pensions Select Committee.
November 2, 2019

Human rights of people with learning disability and autism are being breached

Report describes the "horrific reality" of a system which inflicts terrible suffering on those detained and causes anguish to their distraught families.
October 25, 2019

One fifth fewer unpaid carers supported by local authorities in England

Carers UK says unpaid carers are propping up a crumbling social care system and being left without vital practical support.
October 21, 2019

Social security safety net still being eroded, says Resolution Foundation

Children born between 2016 and 2020 face the joint-highest rates of early years poverty since records began 60 years ago, says the Resolution Foundation.
October 9, 2019

Nine in 10 homes unaffordable for families on benefits

The National Housing Federation is urgently calling on the government to increase LHA payments so that they cover at least the bottom 30 per cent of private rent homes in any local area.
September 10, 2019

Six-week check for new mothers must be funded, says RCGP

Nearly half of mothers who have recently given birth get less than three minutes, or no time at all, to discuss their mental and physical health at a postnatal check, according to new research by the National Childbirth Trust.
August 9, 2019

Petition on access to benefits for terminally ill people delivered to Downing Street

Currently, unless a medical professional signs a form saying the person has six months or less to live, claimants are forced through a laborious process of form-filling, interviews and assessments.
July 31, 2019

More families affected by the two-child limit

Child Poverty Action Group says the two-child limit undermines family life and leaves children without support in their vital early years, when the foundations are being laid for their future development.
July 28, 2019

Millions of people in Yemen get unconditional cash assistance from UNICEF

Nearly nine million people across Yemen have been reached with emergency cash assistance in the fifth payment cycle by UNICEF to help meet their urgent needs as the conflict in the country enters its fifth year.