Almost 60p in every £1 of council tax could be spent on social care...
Almost 60p in every £1 that people pay in council tax may have to be spent caring for children and adults by 2020 leaving...
Over 1.5 million people were destitute in the UK in 2017
More than one and a half million people were in destitution at some point in 2017, including 365,000 children.
This is more people than the populations...
Austerity results in ‘social murder’ according to new research
The consequence of austerity in the social security system – severe cuts to benefits and the ‘ratcheting up’ of conditions attached to benefits –...
Child Poverty is becoming the new norm in Greater Manchester
Child poverty is becoming the ‘new normal’ in parts of Britain as fastest rises in poverty hit the poorest areas.
It is highest in big...
10,000 Greater Manchester children are unhappy says charity
Almost a quarter of a million children in the UK – the equivalent of 219,000 – report being unhappy with their lives as a...
Have Britain’s former industrial regions suffered a DNA brain drain
Regions like former coal-mining and manufacturing areas have suffered a brain drain and become poorer as a result.
Now research shows that this inequality can...
One third of premature deaths linked to social inequality
Nearly 900,000 deaths in England could have been avoided in a more equal society, according to a study of 2.5 million premature deaths over...
Lifelong antisocial behaviour linked to brain structure differences
People who engage in persistent antisocial behaviour long after adolescence have characteristic differences in brain structure, finds a new UCL-led study.
The study, published in The...
Labour calls for urgent action for Govt to protect care staff and social care...
Greater Manchester MP Barbara Keeley, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Social Care is leading the call for action from the Government to address the...
Half of UK households believe they will struggle to meet their financial commitments over...
In the first three weeks after the UK government introduced the 'lockdown', an estimated 7 million households – a quarter of all households in...