The Work Programme: just 1 in 20 ESA claimants have found work through the scheme
The latest batch of Work Programme data were released today. New quarter; similar results: a programme doing acceptably for some, but for others not.
The latest batch of Work Programme data were released today. New quarter; similar results: a programme doing acceptably for some, but for others not.
A group of MPs has slammed the government for using official statistics inaccurately to spin stories about benefit claimants.
The government’s child poverty strategy is disappointingly short on new ideas.
By slashing social security benefits the Tories therefore risk pushing some of the most vulnerable people in society back below the poverty line.
The DWP is sending out threatening, menacing letters to disabled parents, ordering them to do as they say or risk having their children taken into care.
As the DWP publishes its annual Households Below Average Income figures, coalition policies are cancelling out a decade’s progress in tackling child poverty.
The Department for Work and Pensions’ failure to scrutinise the consequences of disability benefit reform raises serious questions about their competence.
Alex Hern celebrates a minor victory over workfare, but warns that there is more to fight for in the future.
Alex Hern asks whether Nick Gibb’s focus on “got to have it now” culture wrongly focuses on celebrity over city greed.
Three months on, Ben Mitchell goes through what we now know about the reasons for the riots.