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Migration Watch report: Unpleasant and Innacurate
Migration Watch’s report1 on Eastern European migrants’ tax and benefits gets this week’s prize for rapid and unpleasant inaccuracy. The report’s 16 word first sentence manages to contain to contain...
View ArticleFraud, Error, Taxes and Benefits
The DWP Select committee has published a report “Fraud and Error in the Benefits System“. The report points out that the public believes that there is much more benefit fraud than there actually is and...
View ArticleFraud, Error and Public Perception
The DWP Select Committee has published a report entitled “Fraud and Error in the Benefits System“. It points out that much less money is lost to fraud than to error but that much more attention is...
View ArticleFaith in Foodbanks? – Media
Here you can find videos and podcasts that compliment the Faith in Foodbanks? resource. Download the Faith in Foodbanks? resource here and find more resources here. To download Podcasts or Videos for...
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Churches respond to Government’s draft Child Poverty Strategy
The Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Churches have responded to the UK Government draft “Child Poverty Strategy”. The Child Poverty Act requires the government to update and publish its plan to...
View ArticleWhy do we Focus Poverty on our Young?
In the first of this weeks blogs on child povertywe look at why the youngest are also the poorest – and why this trend is set to intensify Children are the age group most likely to live in poverty....
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Theology and other ways to waste time
In the second of this week’s blogs on child poverty, Nigel Varndell from The Children’s Society explains why they waste time on theology. According to the story, an American theologian once challenged...
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Child Poverty, meaningless promises & free holiday for every reader!
I am prepared to commit to sending every reader of this blog on holiday to a destination of their choice on the strict understanding that it costs me and my friends less than nothing and it causes me...
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Work won’t cure Child Poverty
Last week’s report from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission said something much more profound than the simple headline that the Government will not meet its commitments on child poverty....
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Changing the law on Child Neglect
You won’t be surprised to learn that our understanding of child development and the effects of neglect has changed over the past 80 years. You may be surprised to learn that the law around neglect...
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