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Westminster council to draft ‘civic contracts’ for benefit recipients
Posted on December 12, 2011 | No CommentsVolunteer in the community or lose benefits, Conservative council warns -
Homeless households increase by 13%
Posted on December 9, 2011 | No CommentsRecession, cuts, and high rents have contributed to an 'alarming' leap in the number of homeless people in England -
Women main drivers of rising living standards
Posted on December 6, 2011 | No CommentsSurvey finds that a quarter of growth in household income between 1968 and 2008-09 came from women working -
Homelessness charities welcome cash to restore empty homes
Posted on December 4, 2011 | No CommentsThe government has pledged £50m for councils to take over and refurbish empty properties to help provide more affordable housing -
The demonisation of the disabled is a chilling sign of the times
Posted on December 4, 2011 | No CommentsThere is a climate of hostility towards people for whom life is already difficult and it is being fostered by politicians and journalists -
‘Honour’ crimes against women in UK rising rapidly, figures show
Posted on December 3, 2011 | No CommentsBanaz Mahmod, an 'honour killing' victim strangled in 2006. Photograph: Metropolitan police/PA -
UK’s battle with HIV goes into reverse, prompting calls for more testing
Posted on November 29, 2011 | No CommentsEstimated 100,000 people to have virus by year's end according to report calling for better prevention -
Frontline police set to staff 999 call centres during strike
Posted on November 29, 2011 | No CommentsNon-emergency callers in some forces to be asked to leave message or ring back later during public sector strike -
Occupy London sets out agenda on how it wants to change the economic world
Posted on November 28, 2011 | 1 CommentCampaigners' policy statement calls for an end to tax havens and tax avoidance -
MPs may be breaking law in offering work to unpaid interns
Posted on November 28, 2011 | No CommentsMinisters told minimum wage should be paid as placements favour children of rich parents who can afford work without pay -
Rise in ‘paupers’ funerals’ among elderly people
Posted on November 28, 2011 | No CommentsMany older people dying alone without family or friends willing or able to pay for burials and cremations, charity claims -
No one should want to go back to the 80s – not even the Tories
Posted on November 27, 2011 | No CommentsThat decade inflicted deep scars on Britain that have never healed and did lasting damage to the Conservatives
