Imposing job-seeking conditions on single parents is unfair when affordable childcare and flexible employments opportunities are scarce, says Gingerbread’s Dalia Ben-Galim.
Student finance has at last become an electoral issue. This could provide the impetus for an overhaul so everyone can afford to go to university, says the Sutton Trust's Javneet Ghuman.
In this testing financial and political climate collaboration between public services has never been more necessary. We need to carry on making the case, says Henry Kippin
The government has released a first-of-its-kind audit, revealing the disparities between ethnic groups and their health, education, employment and justice outcomes.
Today Essex Council starts selling lottery tickets to raise money for 'good causes' in its communities. It is the first county council to set up a lottery in a growing trend of local...
The government should end the benefits freeze rather than increasing the personal tax allowance to help struggling families, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Rent controls are common across Europe and a levy on excessive rents could help generate revenue to build more social housing, says Generation Rent’s Seb Klier
Facts and figures from the October 2017 edition of Public Finance magazine, our international special, on global literacy rates, the cost of a college education and which countries have the best...
Britain’s coastal communities rank among the worst performers for earnings, employment, health, education and a range of other economic and social indicators.
Liverpool City Region elected mayor Steve Rotheram has named Trades Union Congress regional secretary Lynn Collins as chair of his new Fairness and Social Justice Advisory Board.
Every university in England has now committed to working with schools from 2018-19 to improve access to higher education, the Office for Fair Access has said.
Parents working full time on the national living wage (NLW) are significantly short of the income needed to give children an acceptable minimum living standard, the Child Poverty Action Group has...
Rough sleeping in Britain is forecast to rise by 76% in the next decade unless the government takes urgent action, homelessness charity Crisis has stated.
Scottish ministers are to use their new welfare powers to create a benefit aimed at helping people who face financial difficulties in meeting funeral costs.
Cuts to working-age welfare could undo progress made in closing the gap in living standards between different ethnic groups in Britain, the Resolution Foundation has warned.
London is the most unequal part of the UK, but has become somewhat more equal since the 2008 recession, research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
The gig economy can offer some useful opportunities to people who struggle to work in conventional ways. The government should make the most of them, says Ben Dobson of Reform.
