Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

A shocking 128,000 children in Britain will wake up homeless and in temporary accommodation this Christmas, a new report by Shelter reveals today (Wednesday 6th December). The report finds 2017 has seen the highest numbers of homeless children in a d...

House of Commons Tuesday 5 December 2017 Meeting starts at 11.30am Oral questions: Justice (including Topical Questions) Ten Minute Rule Motion: Service Animals (Offences)  Rt Hon Sir Oliver Heald QC MP (North East Hertfordshire, Conservati...

Today sees the launch of UK Poverty 2017 which highlights that overall, 14 million people live in poverty in the UK – over one in five of the population. This is made up of eight million working-age adults, four million children and 1.9 mi...

Hundreds of thousands of children and pensioners have fallen into poverty over the past four years, a report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reveals today. Hundreds of thousands of children and pensioners have fallen into poverty over the past four...

An NHS England board paper has warned that a lack of funding will mean waiting times standards won't be met next year. NHS chiefs also said that factoring in England’s growing and aging patient population, NHS revenue per pe...

The UK care home sector is faced with an unsustainable £1bn funding gap, the Competition and Markets Authority has warned. This has led to care homes propping up their finances by charging higher prices to those who pay for their own care,...

A man aged 65 in the UK can now expect to live, on average, to 85.6 and a woman of the same age to 87.8, new figures reveal. A boy born today could expect to live to 89.5, whilst a girl could expect to live to 92.1. Triple lock pension refers to addi...

Work & Pensions Committee Committee opens new phase of inquiry: next steps to fix Universal Credit The Committee published a report on Universal Credit: the six week wait in October 2017. Following the package of changes to UC announced in the No...

North West Durham CLP (Constituency Labour Party) in partnership with Unite Community are holding a day of action to call for the Government to Pause and Fix Universal Credit. This will be one of the biggest days of action ran by the CLP on this...

Whether people have improved their chances of finding a job, developed fresh perspectives on sustainable development, learnt a new language, gained a clearer idea of European citizenship, or found a new passion for volunteering: Erasmus+ has produced...