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March 20, 2020

Children's Commissioner urges emergency support for families during coronavirus outbreak

Nearly 2,000 families are living in B&Bs, which typically have shared kitchen and bathroom facilities, and the Commissioner estimates that around 90,000 children are living in families who are sofa-surfing.
December 31, 2019

Scottish goverment spending to mitigate UK welfare cuts revealed

In 2019, more than £100 million has been spent by the Scottish Government to mitigate the effects of UK Government austerity, This money could have been better spent on more anti-poverty measures, said Scotland's Social Security Secretary, Shirley-Anne Somerville.
September 5, 2019

Working lone parents 'face drastic and growing income shortfalls'

Lone parents working full time for the so-called national living wage are £80 a week short of what they need for a basic standard of living.
June 18, 2019

NHS financial black hole is getting deeper, says Nuffield Trust

NHS Trusts are dependent on continued short-term one-off cost cuts and emergency funds, which is an impossible basis on which to plan a stable recovery, says the Nuffield Trust.
May 15, 2019

Many young women 'unsafe and separated from children' under Government housing policy

The Government’s housing benefit policy is forcing under-35s into unsafe and inadequate housing that puts many young women at risk, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Southampton, published with Young Women’s Trust.
April 20, 2019

Sutton Trust finds two-thirds of school heads have cut teachers to save money

Over two-thirds of secondary school heads have had to cut teaching staff to save money, according to new polling published by the Sutton Trust.
March 28, 2019

New analysis shows £5.4 billion cut from school budgets in England since 2015

New analysis of the latest Government school funding figures shows a shortfall in funding of £5.4 billion over the past three years with 91 per cent of schools in England affected.
March 11, 2019

Councils warn against further cuts to youth offending teams

Youth justice grants which fund the work of youth offending teams have been halved from £145 million in 2010/11 to £71.5 million in 2018/19.
March 8, 2019

New report shows 'triple whammy' for women as local funding cut by half

Cuts to funding for local government have created a crisis, which has hit women hardest according to a new report launched by the Women’s Budget Group on 7 March 2019.
March 4, 2019

Survey finds widespread funding and workload pressures on school support staff

The National Education Union’s largest ever survey of support staff shows them struggling to cope with real-terms funding cuts and the consequent additional pressures on workload.