Survey reveals huge increase in number of pupils coming to school hungry
Research released today shows teachers have seen a huge increase in the number of pupils coming to school hungry, reports Shamik Das.
Social Justice
Lab 2012: Predistribution: A primer
A look at the rise of a crucial part of Ed Miliband’s vision for the future of the Labour party – predistribution – and how it may spell the end of New Labour.
The Government’s Youth Contract is not up to the job
This morning the Work and Pensions committee publish their report on the Government’s Youth Contract, their initiative to tackle record high youth unemployment. So confident were the coalition that they thought this was the right approach, that the Labour initiative,test
Government compensation cuts reconsidered
Matt Chappell is involved in criminal injury compensation research and writes for Pannone Law. In what must be a great relief for victims of criminal injury, the government has withdrawn its plans to reduce the levels of available compensation astest
Children’s charities face ‘perfect storms’
Nick Davies is a Policy Manager at the Charity Children England. Although talk of the ‘Big Society’ has been somewhat quiet of late, charities are still central to the Coalition’s vision for open public services and play a vital roletest
The New Home Front explained, by Caroline Lucas MP
Caroline Lucas describes the work that the members of the New Home Front have been working on and solutions to the current political and social problems.
Will not supporting gay marriage get you sacked?
Joe O’Donnell is a writer at Incomes Data Services (IDS) and is writing this in a personal capacity. The Telegraph recently published an article entitled ‘Teachers “face sack” for refusing to endorse gay marriage’. This hyperbolic report uses Aidan O’Neilltest
Hillsborough is not just about football or even Liverpool, it is about people power
The emotionally draining findings of the Hillsborough Independent Panel yesterday united people across Merseyside and the world of football. The 450,000 pages of documents from agencies who bore some responsibility for the events that unfolded, from ground safety and thetest
100,000 families will lose out in coalition’s childcare shake-up
The planned shake up of child benefit system will affect families and their incomes, new research by The Children’s society shows. Is it time for a re-think?
Have we passed the high watermark of state support for children?
Donald Hirsch, director of the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), writes about the CPAG/JRF report, “The Cost of a Child in the 21st Century”.