The recess provided the opportunity to catch up with some reading. I thought I’d pass on the main conclusions from a recent Joseph Rowntree Foundation report because it’s highly relevant to the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill, which will be debated in the Commons tomorrow. That Bill will extend the real cut in the value of…
For those of us who believe that social security (aka welfare) has a vital role to play in preventing and alleviating poverty and in providing a degree of economic security in these insecure times, the last few weeks have been disheartening. I’ve just caught up with the latest British Social Attitudes Survey . It shows public…
‘THE FAMILIES WHO CANNOT AFFORD FOOD. Charities try to fill the gap as hungry turn to stealing’ was my local paper’s front page headline last week. The Nottingham Post story continued: ‘Food banks are opening across Nottingham because the number of people who cannot afford to feed their families is increasing. The next day I…
