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1 week ago
An imposed pay cut for local authority employees has resulted in strike action. But Royston Smith, the council's leader, is not backing downAs a former engineer in the Royal Air Force, the leader of Southampton city council probably did not expect to be locked in combat years after he left the servi[...]
1 week ago
An artist’s impression of the bird’s-eye view of the island’s first social housing project to be built in the rural area, close to the States estate at Rue Jehannet, St Martin’s. BUILDING 24 new social housing apartments in St Martin’s will
This is Guernsey via Moreover.com News 1 week ago
So sentencing for some offences will be reduced – but we're still left with an unscientific drug policy obsessed with 'the message'What's the smallest unit of celebration? A whooplet? I need one to mark the news that sentencing for drug offences, in some cases, will be shortened. Following new gu[...]
1 week ago
A conference held to ?disrupt? poverty has found that 4,000 families in Leeds are failing to claim free school meals and other benefits they are entitled to. The Disrupting Poverty workshop in Leeds saw 40 people from all walks of life meet on Friday to
Yorkshire Evening Post via Moreover.com News 1 week ago
The BBC's Protecting Our Children series is an authentic portrayal of the difficult decisions and situations social workers face every dayFor almost four decades, social workers have had to endure a relentless bombardment of criticism, blame and downright abuse because of child protection cases wher[...]
1 week ago
The authority's cabinet member for health, housing and adult social services, Coun Tracey Simpson-Laing, said: “It is a vital we support young people who are finding that starting out in York can be difficult in these challenging times.
Yorkshire Post via Google News 1 week ago
National Kidney Federation says government will miss target to increase organ donor rates by 50% by 2013The head of a kidney charity has warned the government it will miss a target to increase organ donor rates.Tim Statham, chief executive of the National Kidney Federation, said too many people were[...]
1 week ago
Death of John Beely, 73, announced soon after that of Linda McDonagh, 60, who had a hypoglycaemic episode at hospitalPolice in Greater Manchester say a sixth patient has died after apparently being poisoned with insulin when saline drips were sabotaged at Stepping Hill hospital in Stockport last sum[...]
1 week ago
Psychologists who have tracked politicians' careers now say their mental health should be monitoredWhen Michael Gove suggested that despite the economic situation, the UK should buy the Queen a new yacht, the Twittersphere went into meltdown. "Fruitcake" and "numpty" were among the reactions to the [...]
1 week ago
Ray Lewis says he is unclear about his own role, and claims leaders in charge of £1.3m scheme need to 'up their game'The high-profile youth worker who developed a flagship anti-crime mentoring programme for the London mayor, Boris Johnson, has said he is disappointed with its progress so far and he[...]
1 week ago
• International Labour Organisation issues Global Employment Trends 2012 report
• 'Continuous crisis conditions' have left 200m jobless
• 900m workers worldwide living below the $2-a-day poverty line
• Under-25s three times as likely as adults to be unemployedThe global econom[...]
• 'Continuous crisis conditions' have left 200m jobless
• 900m workers worldwide living below the $2-a-day poverty line
• Under-25s three times as likely as adults to be unemployedThe global econom[...]
2 weeks ago
Opponents of the cap on benefits fail to see that it will raise self-esteem and break the cycle of povertyThose who voted to support the bishops' amendment to the welfare reform bill in the House of Lords on Monday focused on the same old points about money. We cannot ignore the fact that money is [...]
2 weeks ago
After a dismal day in the Lords comes the cruellest cut to the welfare state, in which emergency loans go over to 'local' controlNo, said the Department for Work and Pensions, you can't visit a jobcentre to talk to social fund claimants. That's the first no I've ever had from the DWP's press officer[...]
2 weeks ago
The cuts to housing benefit will leave many people searching for cheaper places to stay. We look at the impact of this through the country
Guardian Unlimited via Zibb.com News 2 weeks ago
IDS denies plans will increase hardship but figures compiled by Guardian suggest up to 133,000 children could be affectedThe work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, has insisted that capping household benefits at £26,000 will not increase child poverty.He told the BBC: "The reality is that [...]
2 weeks ago
As well as rewarding executives for poor performance, unfair pay has adverse impacts on the wider economy and on taxpayersVince Cable's policy announcement on tackling the soaring levels of executive pay is unlikely to put an end to the controversy. The business secretary's proposals place a lot of [...]
2 weeks ago
The Government has comfortably survived the first of a series of crucial challenges to its controversial welfare reforms in the Lords. Ministers saw off a Labour-led move to exempt families threatened by homelessness from a benefits cap by 250 votes to
Staines Guardian via Moreover.com News 2 weeks ago
Readers have been sharing their views below the line on stories and blogs about the proposed household benefits capparrotkeeperI live in a two-bed house on the outskirts of Brighton. Our rent is £150pw. I am disabled and my husband is my carer. We have an adult son living with us, hence why we need[...]
2 weeks ago
Thinktank recommends more generous unemployment benefits and reform of housing and council taxesBritain's economic mix of a big banking sector and low level of benefits leaves the country vulnerable to sharply rising inequality unless it moves rapidly to a "fairer" system of redistributing tax burde[...]
2 weeks ago
Half of pensioners surveyed by Age UK have turned heating down when they are not warm enough in attempt to save money
Britain's pensioners are facing rising fuel poverty, according to a report due to be published on Tuesday, with around half of those questioned saying they have turned their hea[...]
Britain's pensioners are facing rising fuel poverty, according to a report due to be published on Tuesday, with around half of those questioned saying they have turned their hea[...]
2 weeks ago
Ministers say a £26,000 cap on the amount of benefits families can receive will cut the deficit and incentivise people to find workWhat is the household benefit cap?The government is proposing to introduce a £26,000 cap on the total amount of benefits that working-age people in the UK can receive [...]
2 weeks ago
The DWP has published its impact assessment of the effects of the benefit changes today. What does the data say?
• Get the dataGovernment proposals to cut benefits are wending their controversial way through parliament, but what is the data behind this story?The Department for Work and Pensio[...]
• Get the dataGovernment proposals to cut benefits are wending their controversial way through parliament, but what is the data behind this story?The Department for Work and Pensio[...]
2 weeks ago
The work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith today insisted that a new £26,000 annual limit on benefits included in the coalition's welfare reforms would not increase child poverty. Is that right? Polly Curtis, with your help, finds out. Get in touch below the line, email your views to polly.c[...]
2 weeks ago
Are you part of a large family who will be hit by the proposed £26,000 benefits cap? Are such families being unfairly targeted?Large families are once again in the spotlight as the £26,000 annual benefits cap proposed by work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith would hit them the hardest. Tim[...]
2 weeks ago
Lords debate household benefit capSign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Paddy Ashdown takes on coalition over benefits cap
• 'Abolishing social fund will hit women and children hardest'
• Housing benefit cap: can you live on 62p a day?
• B[...]
• 'Abolishing social fund will hit women and children hardest'
• Housing benefit cap: can you live on 62p a day?
• B[...]
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