Poverty

By Claire Laurent | 20 August 2019

A conference on health and health inequalities has highlighted the importance of taking a life co...

Fuelling the future

By Hiba Mahamadi | 14 August 2019

Hiba Mahamadi looks at how the two councils who have stepped in to the energy market have fared s...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Prevention is the key to ensuring our children's future

By Rachel Dickinson | 06 August 2019

Rachel Dickinson encourages Boris Johnson to ensure children are central to the policy decisions ...

POVERTY

White van man on... UN intervention

21 November 2018

What have our food banks got to do with the United Nations? Hasn’t it got better things to ...

BUSINESS

Council launches energy company

By William Eichler | 27 April 2017

Liverpool City Council has launched a not-for-profit energy company to tackle fuel poverty.

SOCIAL CARE

Retiring into poverty?

By Janet Morrison | 11 August 2016

Janet Morrison says a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation provides insight into the impact...

FINANCE

Industrial strategy will help local government

By Michael Burton | 02 August 2016

A pair of very contrasting reports have been published on the cost of poverty to local government...

WHITEHALL

Call for councils to take on 'Big Six' energy purchasers

By Jamie Hailstone | 13 July 2016

Every council in England could soon enter the energy business and take on the ‘Big Six,’ accordin...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The devil's in the detail on reducing inequalities

By Michael Burton | 13 January 2016

David Cameron's efforts to tackle inequality might be admirable but fail to consider the crucial ...

FINANCE

An alternative to the big six

By Paul O'Brien | 22 July 2015

With the average UK household currently spending around £1,200 on energy each year, energy prices...

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