Why does the UK need Robin?
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 by Ben Morgan Posted in Attitudes, Child poverty, Equality, Gender, Inequality, Livelihoods, UK poverty, Welfare reform | No Comments »Most people don’t know how much poverty there is in Britain. The ugly truth is much worse than most realise, making a Robin Hood Tax even more important. Structural impoverishment in Britain is rife. 13.5 million people live in poverty, that’s ...
New campaign to stop single parent stigma
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 by Kate Bell Posted in Attitudes, Child poverty, Equality, Gender, Livelihoods | 5 Comments »Kate Bell is Director of Policy, Advice and Communications at the single parent charity Gingerbread. Gingerbread is the national organisation supporting single parents in England and Wales. It is 92 years this month since we were formed as the National ...
Single parenthood doesn’t equal social breakdown – further evidence
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 by Kate Bell Posted in Attitudes, Child poverty, Gender, Inequality, UK poverty | 2 Comments »Kate Bell is Director of Policy, Advice and Communications at the single parent charity Gingerbread Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s book ‘The Spirit Level’ set out comprehensively to demonstrate that more equal societies are better for everyone. In their update, which ...
Child poverty targets are diverting policymakers from the causes to the symptoms of poverty
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 by Neil O'Brien Posted in Child poverty, Inequality, UK poverty, Welfare reform | 2 Comments »By Neil O'Brien, Director of Policy Exchange. In the FT this morning Nick Timmins suggests that the Conservatives are considering widening the child poverty target into a wider set of indicators in order to get a more in-depth measure of poverty. The ...
The Conservatives are talking poverty
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Child poverty, Livelihoods, UK poverty, Welfare reform | 6 Comments »David Cameron’s speech today is clearly designed to show that the Conservative party is serious about poverty. There is an enormous amount in there, and unravelling the themes, the ideology, and the approach behind it all is going to be ...
Nurseries on the brink
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 by Ben Morgan Posted in Child poverty, Equality, Gender, UK poverty | No Comments »On Tuesday the Guardian carried an article highlighting the unintended danger posed to state nurseries by the new early years single funding formula that will come into force from September 2010. Parents reading this will be delighted to know ...
