Welfare

By Dan Peters | 15 November 2018

Universal Credit (UC) is bad for health and wellbeing, academics have found in a new study commis...

WHITEHALL

Ending the cycle of homelessness

07 November 2018

Chief executive of Craven DC, Paul Shevlin, says councils need more funding and affordable housin...

WHITEHALL

Budget 2018: Billion-pound Universal Credit pledge

By Martin Ford | 29 October 2018

Chancellor Philip Hammond today pledged £1bn in an attempt to ease benefits claimants’ transition...

WHITEHALL

Whitehall 'dismissed' councils' concerns over Universal Credit

By Martin Ford | 26 October 2018

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is ‘disturbingly adrift from the real-world problems’ ...

WHITEHALL

Furious LGA attacks Universal Support decision

By Dan Peters | 23 October 2018

Smith Square has penned a stinging rebuke to a senior civil servant over Whitehall’s shock decisi...

WHITEHALL

SOLACE: 'It's no way to run a country,' says Miller

By Heather Jameson | 19 October 2018

The current state of public finances are ‘no way to run a country,’ SOLACE president Jo Miller to...

soapbox

By Paul Wheeler | 17 October 2018

Paul Wheeler is 'taking a break from Brexit Britain' to spend a year in the German capital while ...

WHITEHALL

Casey: Involve councils in sorting Universal Credit

By Dan Peters | 16 October 2018

Whitehall must use the expertise of councils to sort out Universal Credit (UC), a former senior G...

WHITEHALL

McVey: Some people will be worse off under Universal Credit

By Dan Peters | 12 October 2018

Work and pensions secretary Esther McVey has admitted that some people will be worse off as a res...

FINANCE

Councils' concern over Universal Support withdrawal

By Martin Ford | 08 October 2018

Councils have reacted with dismay after the Government handed support for the Universal Credit (U...

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