Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

The Child Support Agency – which processes child maintenance payments between parents – recently closed down and was replaced by the Child Maintenance Service (CMS).  Changes to how the service operates means that the parent caring f...

In his State of the Union address on 14 September 2016, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced the plan for a European Solidarity Corps. "There are many young, socially-minded people in Europe willing to make a meaningful co...

Helpific is an online platform that connects people with disabilities with volunteers who are ready to help them. You can join our community and post your help offer. Be the hero of your community! If you are affected in any kind of disabilities, you...

You might have seen it in the Daily Mirror: the full extent of the Department of Work and Pensions’ legal costs, incurred while fighting the obligation to name the companies who participated in the Workfare scheme. Workfare is a government...

The Scottish National Party has described the Department for Work and Pensions’ plan to close half the Jobcentres in Glasgow as “morally outrageous” and have raised concerns that the city is being used as the “guinea pig&rdquo...

This latest annual report from the New Policy Institute brings together the most recent data to present a comprehensive picture of poverty in the UK. Key points In 2014/15, there were 13.5 million people living in low-income households, 21% of the UK...

Sanctions on benefits have a high opportunity cost, not only for those who are dependent on those benefits if sanctions are applied, but for the efficient use of public resources. “We acknowledge the department's effort to reduce its error rate...

There is potentially a campaign starting to stop newspapers like the Daily Mail trying to intimidate the 'BREXIT' Judges. The Appeal Court are in the process of deciding the legal merits of allowing MP's to debate how we leave the European Union by t...

From its small beginnings as a debating society, the Cambridge Union now has over 70,000 life members worldwide. Now the oldest debating society in the world, and the largest student society in Cambridge, the Union remains a unique for...

Policy in Practice have produced this useful information. In April 2017: The National Living Wage will be set at £7.50 per hour for over 25's The taper rate of Universal Credit will be reduced to 63% from 65% Council tenants on incomes of &poun...