Across Britain over the past few weeks, thousands of school and university students have staged multiple demonstrations and occupations against the tripling of University fees and the scrapping of the Educational Maintenance Allowance for the poorest teenagers. Students occupied a…

Frank Field’s review of child poverty has at last found the solution – redefine it out of existence. Instead of looking at household income, a measure which is imperfect but is internationally accepted and has data going back to the…

The cold weather this week has conveniently coincided with two other pieces of recent news. The first is that the continued rise in energy prices has been referred to OFGEM, and the second is the update of the fuel poverty…

Alcohol and its costs to society, to the Health Service, to children and to individuals has been in the news frequently in recent months. Alcohol pricing, advertising, marketing and policy take up space in editorials and opinion pieces. I am…

For years, the welfare system has been identified as a barrier to people finding work. There has often been little financial incentive for somebody to take low paid, part time or infrequent work as the taper rate – (the rate…