A Living Wage Decade
Living Wage Week 2014 brings mixed news about efforts to tackle low pay. While the number of accredited Living Wage employers has increased to over 1,000 this has not been...
Child Poverty
State of the Nation 2014
...by 2020 and all by 2025. A national parenting campaign to be launched to help more parents become excellent parents, funded by removing childcare tax breaks from families where at...
Government response to child poverty and social mobility challenge - more pace, drive and ambition needed
Posted by:
Alan Milburn, Posted on:
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Categories:
Child Poverty, Social Mobility, Social Mobility and Child Poverty, Uncategorized
...with which Government is approaching these issues. Looking across the response, there are some good things in the document. I welcome the fact that the Government shares much of the...
Working poverty: what's going on?
Posted by:
Professor Paul Gregg, Posted on:
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Categories:
Child Poverty, Poverty, Social Mobility and Child Poverty
...The change has been driven by three things, two of which are good news: A big decrease in the proportion of children living in workless households: from 20% in 1996...
First impressions on the Child Poverty Strategy: a missed opportunity?
...child poverty over the next few years. Second, though it marshals some excellent recent policy announcements – universal infant free school meals, removing National Insurance for under-21s – it needs...
Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission: our new blog
...has become the new holy grail of public policy. This is a development I regard as most welcome. The job of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission that I...