Scotland opens second ‘housing village’ to help people transition out of homelessness
The development follows a similar scheme in Manchester amid growing efforts to tackle homelessness through community-based, supported housing.
Spain approves undocumented migrant amnesty policy, breaking with Europe’s migration crackdown
The aim is to bring those already embedded in Spanish society into the formal economy, ensuring they can work legally, contribute taxes, and access protections.
Viktor Orbán’s defeat exposes Reform’s fragile benchmark
Beyond Hungary, the result may point to something broader. Across Europe, parts of the populist right appear to be encountering limits and have, dare we say it, peaked.
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Pensioner poverty: Rising pension age risks greater levels of poverty and health inequities, experts warn
“Even the suggestion that people won’t get it until their 70s will make people feel more distrustful than they already do in the state pension system.”
Calls grow for childcare workers to earn £15 an hour minimum wage and to end zero-hour contracts
‘Caring for and educating young children is skilled work, and the overwhelmingly female workforce deserves decent pay and conditions.’
The European Parliament: The Next Target of the Far-Right
What is fevered activity between minor parties in Europe, becomes equally fevered factional activity within the Tory Party.
Homelessness charity issues chilling warning over council funding cuts
A vital charity that helps vulnerable people has become vulnerable itself.
This is why campaigners are calling on parliamentary candidates to ‘Pledge for the NHS’
“In this election, we must put all candidates in a position where they are either backing our NHS or being shown up to their local communities as a threat to it.”
Northern mayors say train services have ‘got poorer’ since Northern Powerhouse promise
“What message does that send about the North? That we are somehow worth less than people in the South?”
How the Tories created a worker shortage in the UK
Austerity, low wages, and degradation of healthcare and public services are to blame
EXCLUSIVE: Nearly half of voters think current Tory government is more corrupt than previous governments, poll finds
Concerns over corruption in government have been rising over recent years.
Rishi Sunak only has himself to blame for failing to bring NHS waiting lists down
Sunak’s pledge to bring down the NHS waiting lists wasn’t an off-hand pledge, an off-the-cuff remark, or a long-term policy proposal
The NHS isn’t failing the public. The government is failing the NHS.
There is a dual attack on the NHS of underfunding and privatisation