by Sam | 18 Sep 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
The Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has called on political leaders to use the party conference season to produce a “road-map” to end poverty in the UK. Introducing JRF’s report A UK without poverty, Julia Unwin said there needs to be a...
by Sam | 28 Aug 2014 | Politics
Britain is “deeply elitist”, according to Government-commissioned analysis of the backgrounds of prominent public figures. The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission looked at the upbringing of more than 4,000 figures from business, politics, the public sector...
by Sam | 26 Aug 2014 | Local Government
Councils in poor areas are being hit worst by the Government’s austerity measures, according to new research by Labour. The figures show that councils covering the 10 most deprived areas of England – measured according to the index of multiple deprivation...
by Sam | 2 Jun 2014 | Children and Families, Education & Children's Services
Oxford University research, published by the Nuffield Foundation, a charitable foundation which funds research and innovation in education and social policy, has found that private and voluntary (not-for-profit) nurseries and preschools catering for disadvantaged...
