An IRISS and CCPS commissioned research project examining how welfare reform is impacting on the social services workforce are hosting a workshop next month. Participants from organisations in the voluntary,
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The growing demand for foodbanks is “inextricably linked” to welfare reforms, charities have told MSPs. Holyrood’s Welfare Reform Committee heard how thousands more people have turned to voluntary organisations for
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Around 68,000 benefit claimants are having their welfare payments stopped unfairly each year, heightening demand for food banks, a think tank has claimed today. Policy Exchange said the figure relates
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Twenty-six bishops have written a letter condemning the Government’s “punitive” welfare reforms which they say have forced people into food and fuel poverty. In an open letter to the Daily
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David Cameron has defended the Government’s welfare reforms in the face of criticism from the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, insisting they were part of
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A project to help Glaswegians develop the skills to claim benefits and find jobs online is to receive £170,000 support from the Scottish Government, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced
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