Former prime minister Gordon Brown has launched a new charity project in Wales to help support families in poverty. Cwtch Mawr – Welsh for “big hug” – the country’s first
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A former rough sleeper has told the homelessness minister not enough is being done to help people on the streets who he said were given “false hope” when the Government
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More than 170 councils have urged the Chancellor to provide more money for vulnerable people struggling with the cost of living when he announces his Budget this week, warning that
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The number of people sleeping rough in England rose by 27% in a year, with charities branding the statistics a “source of national shame”. There were 3,898 rough sleepers on
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The Tory Government at Westminster is “hell-bent on returning to a new age of austerity”, Scotland’s Finance Secretary has warned. Shona Robison, who is also the Scottish Deputy First Minister,
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The number of open homelessness cases in Scotland is at the highest level on record, figures show. Government statistics released on Tuesday reveal 30,724 live applications were recorded on September
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Parkinson’s sufferers are struggling to afford the basics as they face a benefits system that is failing them due to not enough understanding of the condition, a charity has said.
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Campaigners believe there is still a “huge gap” between the cost of raising a child in Scotland and family incomes despite recent government efforts to provide additional support. New analysis
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An eight-day working week would be needed for an average low-income family where parents are in full-time employment to escape poverty, a charity has claimed. Action for Children said its
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More than half of people receiving universal credit have recently run out of food and been unable to afford more, according to a survey for an anti-poverty charity. Just over
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