by Agency Reporter | Feb 17, 2023 | Briefing
THE UK GOVERNMENT is set to spend five times more (£58.2 billion) on subsidising private landlords in England via housing support than on its entire affordable housebuilding programme (£11.5 billion for the Affordable Homes Programme) over the next four years,...
by Staff Writer | Feb 17, 2023 | Briefing
A DEDICATED COALITION of 94 organisations has come together in an effort to lessen the financial hardship experienced by millions of unpaid carers in England, and parallel concerns in other parts of the UK. The Carer Poverty Coalition, which includes a mixture of...
by Staff Writer | Feb 16, 2023 | Briefing
INCOME TAX CHANGES in the Scottish Government’s 2023–24 Budget, together with other changes made over the past six years, will make the tax and benefit system in Scotland considerably more progressive than that in the rest of Great Britain, says the Institute for...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 16, 2023 | Briefing
IT IS TIME for global leaders to accelerate action for food security by stepping up investments in rural communities and the small-scale farmers who produce one-third of the world’s food, says the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development...
by Agency Reporter | Feb 15, 2023 | Briefing
THE FAMILY COURTS in England and Wales are failing survivors of domestic abuse, according to 28 leading women’s charities, solicitors and survivors. A letter signed by the group has been delivered to Secretary of State for Justice Dominic Raab, calling for urgent...
by Staff Writer | Feb 15, 2023 | Briefing
THE UK PARLIAMENT Joint Committee on Human Rights has launched a new inquiry to examine how human rights are protected at work across the UK. The Committee says: “Work is a central aspect of people’s live as it often provides their principal source of income and...
