A Disabled Persons Guide To Finding Employment
According to the NHS Choices website, only around half of the people living with disability in the UK have a job. In a country that has a national unemployment rate of just under eight percent, many...
View ArticleWill The Government Childcare Scheme Help Parents Into Work?
Childcare costs in England have been rising above the rate of inflation for at least a decade. The average cost of childcare is £5,000 per year for 25 hours nursery time per week, but can go as high as...
View ArticleMixed Picture Revealed Of Peoples’ Attitudes To The NHS
A survey showed that current attitudes to the NHS are mixed. The main finding revealed that 43% of people nationally thought that doctors didn’t listen to their concerns, while 54% said that if they...
View ArticleThe Bloated Bureaucratic Sickness Benefits Process
Across Britain there is a wave of anger spreading at the lengthy and intricate bureaucracy of the Department of Works and Pensions (D.W.P), ATOS Healthcare and the Tribunals who assess people claiming...
View ArticleResidential Care For The Elderly – Funding Options
People who choose residential care either for themselves or their loved ones will have to think about how to fund their stay in a residential care facility.
View ArticleThe Labour Party, A Left-Wing Think-Tank And The Telegraph – Who’s Telling...
The IPPR report, coming from the heart of the Labour establishment (with no less than three articles in the New Statesman promoting it), fully warrants the Telegraph headline, says Richard Atkinson.
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Inside The Work Programme And Why It Doesn’t Work
"I’ve never before seen such a vulgar display of capitalism exploiting the poor, the disabled and the sick."
View ArticleTechnological Innovations Helping Society’s Most Vulnerable
Modern technology has given pretty much everyone a heightened sense of independence, and also a much greater feeling that the world itself has somehow shrunk.
View ArticleThe Media Argument Over Welfare Reform
The aim and effect is to demonise and scapegoat people with disabilities, the sick, those living in poverty and indeed anyone who needs support to cope with the impact of deliberate austerity policies.
View ArticleWe Have To Tackle The Lies About Food Banks
The work that the Trussell Trust and all food bank volunteers are doing is absolutely incredible, says Bradley Allsop.
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