Credit deserts where loan sharks still reign

Rochdale has been identified as one of twenty nine areas in the country home to "credit deserts" where people struggle to find affordable borrowing...

Labour pledges to scrap Universal Credit

Jeremy Corbyn will today announce that Labour  will scrap Universal Credit, calling the flagship Tory welfare reform “inhumane” and an “unmitigated disaster”. Speaking at a...

More than five million workers are still earning below the Living wage

Just under one-fifth (19%) of UK jobs pay below the real Living Wage according to data released by KPMG After a setback last year, the...

Channel 4 goes back to school to discuss the issue of unconscious racial bias...

Channel 4’s bold and engaging new series will explore a ground-breaking programme that tests for unconscious racial bias in an ordinary class of 11...

Better services and not tougher legislation needed to tackle persistent Spice use within homeless...

Spice’s popularity among some members of the homeless community causes a uniquely dangerous cocktail of physical, mental and societal harms that must be addressed...

Call for palliative care to be adapted for severely ill Covid-19 patients

Emergency-style palliative care needs to implemented to meet the needs of Covid-19 patients who wouldn’t benefit from a ventilator say researchers. This is the first...

Researchers to track impact of lockdown on alcohol, gambling and pornography use

Is the lockdown leading us to drink more alcohol or spend more time gambling online or watching pornography? Researchers today launch a survey aimed...

A quarter of pregnant women have faced discrimination at work during the coronavirus outbreak

A quarter of pregnant women have faced discrimination at work during the coronavirus outbreak, according to a new TUC survey . A new poll...

Low income workers at greater risk of unemployment and mounting ill health as furlough...

New analysis by the Health Foundation raises concerns about people’s future health, revealing that an economic crisis in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic...

97 per cent of parents planning to send children back to school, ONS survey...

97% of parents with children of school age said it was very likely or fairly likely that the oldest school age child in their...