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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.

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. 

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.

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.