Coping with Destitution – the plight of refused asylum seekers in the UK
Friday, February 4th, 2011 by Helen Longworth Posted in Asylum-seekers, Attitudes, Homelessness, Livelihoods, Refugees, Wellbeing | 4 Comments »At the parliamentary launch of our latest research I spoke to a refugee who had been forced into destitution during her passage through the UK asylum system. Ana told me that, to pay just £10 per week to cover some ...
Mind the gap – is the VAT rise a step too far?
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 by Craig Cook Posted in Cuts, Fairness, Fuel poverty, Homelessness, Inequality, UK poverty | 1 Comment »The New Year is still in its infancy but already the prospects for 2011 are looking gloomy. Rail fares are going up by 6%, the cost of energy and petrol is rocketing and there is mass unemployment. However, ignoring for a ...
Homeless people facing cold cuts ahead, worrying trend of rough sleeping numbers rising
Friday, December 10th, 2010 by Mike McCall Posted in Cuts, Homelessness, UK poverty | 1 Comment »The following blog is by Mike McCall, he is the Executive Director of Operations at St Mungo’s. The Government’s just published the latest national homelessness statistics. Overall, it’s not great news. Homelessness has risen in two consecutive quarters for the first time ...
A need for respect and compassion, and remembering that underneath, we’re all the same
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 by Lisa Glass Posted in Attitudes, Homelessness, Inequality, UK poverty | 1 Comment »I’m killing time before I head to my once-a-week regular haunt, a soup kitchen. It’s a small, Catholic-run centre offering free sandwiches and soup, tea or coffee, and biscuits. A couple of nights a week there’s a game of bingo ...
Housing Benefit cuts will make people homeless and drive them away from jobs
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 by Richard Exell Posted in Child poverty, Homelessness, Welfare reform | No Comments »As specialist organisations have time to evaluate the likely effect of the Housing Benefit cuts, it is becoming clear that families will be forced into homelessness and child poverty will be exacerbated. The changes will force families to move away ...
Budget 2010: Cutting Benefits by Stealth
Thursday, June 24th, 2010 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Homelessness, Inequality, Livelihoods, Welfare reform | 6 Comments »The headline announcements were bad enough. Largely due to the increase in the highly regressive VAT, it is, as the IFS put it, ‘likely that the overall impact of [the Budget’s taxation] measures was regressive’. George Osborne’s claims that this ...
