by Staff Writer | Mar 22, 2024 | Briefing
THE latest official poverty statistics show child poverty in the UK has reached a record high, with an estimated 100,000 more children pulled into poverty last year. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)’s annual Households Below Average Income shows 4.3 million...
by Staff Writer | Mar 20, 2024 | Briefing
ON 18 March 2024, the UK government provided its oral defence to the United Nations Committee for the Rights of Disabled People, regarding the UK’s “grave and systemic” violations of the Convention on the Rights of Disabled People (CRDP). The government refused to...
by Staff Writer | Mar 14, 2024 | Briefing
AROUND one in five children in Northern Ireland are living in relative poverty, before housing costs. A report published by Northern Ireland’s Comptroller and Auditor General, Dorinnia Carville, on 12 March also highlighted the fact that eight per cent of...
by Staff Writer | Mar 8, 2024 | Briefing
THE Church of Scotland is backing a new campaign to encourage people to sign up to vote in the next General Election. The Voter Registration Champion scheme is targeting voters at risk of not being able to have their say because they have not registered in time to...
by Staff Writer | Mar 7, 2024 | Briefing
THE Chancellor’s Budget Statement ignored climate breakdown, did almost nothing for people in poverty, and introduced tax cuts which largely benefit the rich and will further degrade public services, say social justice and environmental campaigners. Danny...