The survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire are calling on the government to overhaul the way social housing is regulated and set up a powerful watchdog that could jail negligent housing managers.
It’s one thing to read about poverty and quite another to see it up close. As a journalist I’ve lost count of the number of articles I’ve written about families suffering under the government’s austerity measures.
Deprivation is robbing people of years of good health from their 30s onwards, driving people out of work and reinforcing poverty as they head towards retirement age. A report by Richard Vize.
The government’s expert adviser on social security has said the next phase in the rollout of universal credit could push thousands of claimants into hardship or even out of the benefits system altogether.
Although the UK is the seventh richest country in the world, it is also deeply unequal, and millions of families are living below the breadline, Demand for emergency food aid has risen astronomically in the past few years.
Christian charity Church Action on Poverty has encouraged local communities and churches to start food pantries as a long-term solution to tackling food poverty in their area.
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