From the construction and housing booms to price changes and renting versus buying, Tom Davies presents 4 charts to explain what’s happened to housing. 1 Bursting point? Another housing bubble How unaffordable can it get? House prices in the UK continue to increase. Median earnings only increased by 57% from 1996 to 2012, but house prices […]
Fiona Parker and Neil Johnston, freelance journalists and final year students at York, have chosen seven key centres in the city to follow on welfare issues. 1. York Teaching Hospital The teaching hospital in York has over 700 beds and is located fifteen minutes from the centre of the City. The York Teaching Hospital Trust, the […]
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The Trussell Trust has reason to feel proud about spreading its humanitarian vision, stepping in to give three days of crisis food nationwide. It is a vision that David McAuley said his fantastic team buys into and one that has also caught the interest of groups around the country. The uptake of their simple food […]
Many supermarket customers dropped food donations into Tesco trolleys over the weekend for those UK people struggling with food poverty. The traditional habit of feeding the birds snippets seems to be replaced with more serious concerns. The Trussell Trust’s national food collection across 3000 Tescos stores on the busiest weekend of the year meets an […]
These are some welfare links we found interesting during the second week of September. What were Ian Duncan Smith’s ‘welfare reforms’ really about?. Guardian, Sue Marsh, spokeswoman and author of Diary of a Benefit Scrounger says the reforms are frightening the most vulnerable. Hard evidence: are migrants draining the welfare system?. The Conversation. The evidence […]
These are some welfare links we found interesting during the first week of September. Britain 2013: children of poor families are still left behind.Guardian, Society, Poverty. Has Britain moved on since the Born to Fail? report of the early 70′s, … Continue reading →
These are some welfare links we found interesting during the second two weeks of August. Food bank Britain: life below the line: Guardian. The Trussell Trust opens three new food banks a week, finding not only those facing benefit cuts … Continue reading →
The number of children in care applications is on the rise, shown by figures released by the adoption and care process body, Cafcass June 2013. Blackpool, Stockton-on-Tees and South Tyneside had the highest number of care applications per 10,000 children. … Continue reading →