Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

David Marr posits, 'This man is perhaps the sanest journalist in Australia. While a lot of attention has focused on political ructions overseas in the last twelve months; Brexit in the UK and the election of Donald Trump in the US, at a rec...

An eye-catching campaign to help council tenants get their finances in order has been launched by Sheffield City Council. Don’t Bury Your Head in the Sand is the message behind the campaign which aims to help tenants manage their money, with ad...

Government advertising campaign launches today to raise lowest paid workers’ knowledge of their rights ahead of the National Minimum and National Living Wage rates rise on 1 April Government advertising campaign goes live across the countr...

The Scottish National Party have called for clarity from the UK government over cuts to Personal Independence Payments (PIPs) which could see around 160,000 disabled people stripped of their financial support. The UK government has announced emergenc...

Economic Affairs Committee Tuesday 28 February 2017 Meeting starts at 3.35pm The Economic Affairs Committee is conducting an inquiry on Brexit and the Labour Market.  The Committee will examine the impact of Brexit on the UK Labour market....

The Scottish Parliament’s Social Security Committee is seeking views on the Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill. The Committee will be considering evidence during March and April with a view to reporting its views on the general principles of th...

Serious systematic problems exist with the new Universal Credit system according to a letter issued today by MSPs on the Scottish Parliament’s Social Security Committee. Problems which will only get worse as a result of the UK Government&r...

Housing policy across Europe faces many challenges. In particular, a growing and increasingly diverse demand for decent homes for everyone, especially among more vulnerable groups such as the elderly, those on low wages or with disabilities, refugees...

Unemployed people received twice as many benefit sanctions as the DWP are willing to admit, according to new research. There were 300,000 sanctions imposed on unemployed people in the UK in the year to September 2016, double the number reported by th...

Havant Borough Council (HBC) is freezing council tax for the eighth consecutive year they tell us. The council has achieved financial sustainability without significant service reduction, despite the continuing fall in central government grants. HBC...