Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

It is Evidence Week in the UK parliament. The first of its kind, Evidence Week will run from 25th to 28th June 2018 and will bring together MPs, peers, parliamentary services and people from all walks of life across the UK to talk about why evidence...

Poundland has offered “guaranteed job interviews” to Poundworld employees who face an uncertain future. Last week, the discount chain collapsed into administration. High street discount chain Poundworld, which has 335 stores nationwide an...

The SNP’s protection of free eye tests in Scotland has seen people benefit over 21 million times from the initiative since 2007 – with the Scottish Government investing over £775 million in the policy over the last decade.   Th...

The Social Democratic Labour Party are the latest political party to add us to their press release list. We do get a fantastic stream of information from government departments, political parties, pressure groups, not-for-profits and international NG...

Universal Credit (UC) is being rolled out in Colchester in July amid a huge amount of concern, with over two hundred faith groups, mental health organizations, not-for-profits and pressure groups calling for a halt this winter to the national roll-ou...

Today, March 19th, the Prime Minister visited Street League in Birmingham, to launch a £90m programme that will tackle inequalities in youth unemployment. Nothing of course due to the FIFA World Cup being on and England winning. A cha...

Wages grew and wage inequality fell in most EU countries in 2015. Germany is not one of the countries where wages rose most, but it did have the largest reduction of wage inequality. Eurofound analysis shows that the German minimum wage policy introd...

Estimates from the Annual Population Survey show that an average of 2.2 million people worked in the construction industry between 2014 and 2016 accounting for 7% of workers across all industries in the UK 7% of workers in the construction industry i...

ONS has today published new analysis contrasting spending on social welfare across Europe. The new analysis which contrasts spending in European Union states together with Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Turkey and Serbia shows that in 2015 social prot...

Applications for asylum fell by 44 percent across the EU in 2017 compared to the previous year, according to a new report by the European Asylum Support Office. EASO recorded a total of 728,470 applications last year for the whole...