Welfare reform: The coalition’s next train crash
Shadow employment minister Stephen Timms MP writes on the failures that lie at the heart of Iain Duncan Smith’s Welfare Reform Bill – the coalition’s next train crash.
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Why Frank Field is wrong on women and welfare
Frank Field told the Progress Conference that Labour should not be a feminist party and that people are attracted to a life of joblessness, reports Shelly Asquith.
Coalition must not destroy legacy of lowest child poverty for 25 years
Tim Nichols, of the Child Poverty Action Group, looks at the policies brought in under Labour thast helped bring child poverty down to the lowest levels for 25 years.
Last chance to have your say on Employment Support Allowance
Sue Marsh reports on the welfare reform bill – in particular the changes to Employment Support Allowance, ESA.
Shocking new report reveals 1.6m children live in ‘severe poverty’
A new report out today has revealed nearly 1.6 million children in the UK live in severe poverty, with the highest levels of child poverty in Manchester and Tower Hamlets.
Misleading to claim welfare reform will cut child poverty levels
Making hundreds of thousands of families poorer, and then making some a little better off, does not count as a child poverty reduction plan, writes Nicola Smith.
Look Left – ’AV it! Referendum campaign gets into full swing
After months of shadow boxing, the campaign proper kicked off this week as the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill finally received Royal Assent.
How the ‘jilted generation’ is paying for coalition’s cuts
More than 2,000 young people from across the country, including from the Prime Minister’s own constituency of Witney in Oxfordshire, have signed a letter to David Cameron to be published today, calling for the government to think again on its planned cuts to youth provision and support.
Who’d have thought it – ‘real’ welfare is working
Is Britain really broken? New findings suggest that the growth of so called ‘welfare dependency’ may be massively overstated, reports Daisy Blacklock.
IDS dodges questions on DWP statistics
IDS has dodged questions from Left Foot Forward regarding the misuse of DWP statistics.