by Whitehouse Communications | 2 Feb 2021 | Civil liberties, Economy, Education & Children's Services, Environment, Infrastructure, Justice, PR and Media Relations, Third Sector
The British Government’s political policy decision to abolish the statutory requirement to spend 0.7% of gross domestic product on overseas aid came in for a savage pasting from MPs and Peers in an online meeting with one of the country’s leading overseas...
by Chris Rogers | 18 Aug 2016 | Economy, Public Sector
We have a national crisis of homelessness that politicians must address. Sky high housing costs, economic uncertainty and insecure tenancies are causing an increase in homelessness across the UK. Last year, almost 30,000 people made homeless applications to local...
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 | 3 Sep 2014 | Children and Families, Education & Children's Services, General Election 2015, Politics
Following news earlier this week that the Lib Dems would pledge in the party’s General Election manifesto to extend the free school meals policy to all primary school pupils over the course of the next parliament, The Guardian has today reported that the party...
by Sam | 27 Jun 2014 | Children and Families
The Department for Education has published its child poverty strategy which aims to tackle the root causes of poverty and build on the first strategy, published in 2011. Actions set out in the strategy include: Encouraging people to take up work through Jobcentre Plus...
