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...
Councils could face budget blackhole amid growing concerns about underfunded adult social care reforms
As councils plan budgets for next year, concerns are growing that the Government’s reforms to adult social care are underfunded and risk their implementation...
Centrepoint reveals 3,000 young people are at risk of homelessness in Manchester as hundreds...
At least 3,030 young people in Greater Manchester approached their local council for help last year because they were homeless or at risk of...
Coronavirus: polling shows British public values compassion over economic stability
These are uncertain, anxious and unnerving times. The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting every one of us in some way, from physical and mental health...
“It’s hard, I’m drowning” – older women facing greater financial problems
Personal debt is at record levels in the UK, and 17% of pensioners live in relative income poverty. Now, new research from The University...
Turning around struggling High Streets too big a job for local authorities on their...
The fortunes of struggling High Streets can not be turned around by local authorities on their own as the job is too big –...
Tricks of the trade – how slick websites and apps make borrowing easy
Payday loan companies design their websites and apps specifically to stop users dropping out of the application process, research led by Newcastle...
Three quarters of young people have found this lockdown harder on their mental health...
New research by the charity YoungMinds shows that many young people with mental health problems have struggled to cope during the winter lockdown, and...
Children were neglected during the pandemic – important lessons still to be learned
Children are still suffering the consequences of official neglect during the first ‘shock period’ of the COVID-19 pandemic, when families were not widely prioritised...
“Clunky and challenging” -Report says weddings in England and Wales too slow to respond...
The law on weddings in England and Wales has been too slow to respond to religious and cultural diversity and the increasing number of...