Former Help Me Investigate Education contributor Beth Ashton has won an award for her work in the social media team at Trinity Mirror. Carol Vorders gave me an award! #canihaveavowelpleasecarol pic.twitter.com/aaXdHm32c5 — Beth Ashton (@BethAshton) December 1, 2014 Beth wrote for Help Me Investigate Education in 2013 about a ‘leak’ that she stumbled across while […]
If you want to keep track of what’s happening in welfare reform we’ve compiled this list of some of the most useful – and varied – sources on everything from the bedroom tax to child poverty. We’ve also put together a dashboard if you want to follow these on a single easy-to-check webpage. You can follow […]
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 […]
Neil Johnston and Fiona Parker, freelance journalists and final year students in York, have put together a list of Twitter accounts to follow for anyone interested in welfare issues in the area. You can also follow the list here. 1. david3012 @david3012 Director of Development at @TheRetreatYork , sci-fi geek, motorhome owner and lover of […]
As Help Me Investigate starts to plan new investigations in 2014, it’s a good time to look back at what we’ve been up to over the last year across the four sites (not including this blog). It’s easy to forget how much you do in a year – thanks to the many contributors who made everything […]
Help Me Investigate now has a presence on the publishing platform Medium – you can find us at medium.com/@helpmeinvestig8 Our first story on the site is an updated version of the HMI Olympics longform ebook 8,000 Holes: How the Olympic Torch Relay Lost Its Way.
Tweet How do students spend their money? Are they careful? Do they lie about it to their parents? What about the dreaded overdraft? An infographic (shown below) created by ZenithOptimedia and Natwest has revealed how young adults spend their money … Continue reading →
Benefit sanctions hitting homeless people hardest. Homeless Link has commissioned a report called A High Cost to Pay (pdf) that highlights the difficulties of the most vulnerable people in attending benefit dependant interviews. There is a call for Jobcentre Plus advisors to better understand the predicament of homeless people. Homeless Link found that the sanctions […]
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 →