Schools have been providing “basic needs” to families, such as food and clothes, amid the pandemic due to “weaknesses” in the welfare system that urgently need repair, a report suggests.
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The Scottish Government has been urged to set up a peer support network for asylum seekers who are facing destitution. The British Red Cross, along with the Refugee Survival Trust,
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The Local Government Association has warned that council housing waiting lists could double by next year – a situation it said was avoided last year due to extensions to pandemic
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Families on low incomes face paying more council tax if the Government does not extend discounts to help during the pandemic recovery period, councils warn. The Local Government Association (LGA),
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The country’s current longest-serving MP defended branding politicians’ £80,000 pay packets “grim” as he said higher wages would widen the field of available candidates. Worthing West Tory MP Sir Peter
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Reducing child poverty in Wales will be very difficult if the Conservative government keeps cutting public spending, a Welsh Government minister has said. Health and social services minister Eluned Morgan
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Revamped London buses will provide a “one-stop” service offering homeless people haircuts, doctors’ appointments, showers and financial advice to help them off the streets. Two buses have been repurposed with
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Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has been criticised for singing “I’ve had the time of my life” as she cuts universal credit payments. Ms Coffey (pictured) belted out a
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One child every second will be affected by the widely opposed cut to Universal Credit (UC) on average over the next month, a charity has warned. Save the Children is
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Half of people claiming Universal Credit (UC) were living in food insecurity even before being hit by the removal of the £20-a-week uplift, research shows. Half of claimants were experiencing
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