Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

The UK Government’s sanctions regime has “detrimental financial, material, emotional and health impacts” and pushes those on JSA and ESA into debt and reliance on foodbanks, according to new academic research. The research is the fi...

More than 900,000 people in Scotland live in low income households. In a rich country like ours this is unnecessary and unacceptable. Challenge Poverty Week is an opportunity for you to raise you voice against poverty and show what is being done...

The Poverty Alliance will be facilitating a networking event in Dundee on the 26th of October which is designed to bring together a range of local groups and organisations to discuss issues of key concern to the fight against poverty. The meeting wil...

Any thoughts that home ownership is not on the decline can be rectified by this graph. Owning your own home is but a dream for many young people as this graph clearly shows. 

Now in its third year, the annual awareness day will this year take place on Sunday 11 September 2016, within Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. It aims to highlight the huge number of informal and family carers who provide innovative and compassiona...

Patients in England will be able to view test results as they come in and keep track of their glucose levels and cholesterol on their smartphones, enabling them to take greater control of their care and better manage their health. Official figures re...

New Lords speaker Lord Fowler says number of peers now ‘unjustifiable' and talks of 'passengers' in the House of Lords. With David Cameron's resignation and the appointment of 16 new peers including Number 10 staff, the House of Lords  has...

A FORMER policeman who fraudulently pocketed more than £74,000 in a benefits scam has been jailed for two years. Timothy Dunning, who used to work for Thames Valley Police, admitted swindling the cash from West Oxfordshire District Co...

A 'vital' benefits advice service for people with disabilities in Surrey is being cut by the county council, months after its leader said a tax increase implemented earlier this year would raise some £12m for adult social care services. The Get...

More than a quarter of young people in many UK cities are unemployed, potentially undermining efforts to bring about "inclusive growth" following Brexit, a new study has warned. A report by the charity EY Foundation says "stark variations" in youth u...