A group of MPs call for an urgent pause to #DisabilityBenefits reform and cuts. This is the right thing to do. itv.com/news/2025-05-2…

“The cost-effective way of getting more children out of poverty… is abolishing the two-child limit.” Former PM Gordon Brown calls on the government to drop the two-child benefit cap, arguing that there has been “a wrong diagnosis of the poverty problem” #Peston

Nuffield Foundation At its peak, Sure Start cost around £2.7bn per year (in today's prices). We estimate that over the long run, it might generate £2.4bn in savings for government per cohort. Including wider benefits like higher earnings, total long-run benefits could be twice the cost. [10/11]

Research Paper: Homelessness a comparison of legislative frameworks in NI, England, Scotland and Wales. The paper provides an overview of the independent reviews of homelessness legislation in other jurisdictions and the outworking of those reviews. nia1.me/5cy

Thanks to The Yorkshire Post for publishing my article with Trussell 's new stats. No child should be held back by hunger, but too many grow up in severe hardship and blights childhoods and has long term impacts on children's prospects in adulthood. yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/n…

We have just published a joint letter with GM Equality Panel members opposing the DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper, please promote it across your networks and media: Full text and easy read at link gmdisabledpeoplespanel.com/2025/05/22/gm-…

On disability benefits, Martin Lewis tells Radio 4: "My mailbox is flooded with people concerned on that - both with physical and mental health disabilities problems - worried about how they are going to live and how they are going to continue. "When you take a payment away

The government's proposed cuts to disability benefits will deepen poverty and hardship, and push many further from work 📢 Over 3 million disabled people will see their benefits cut, but the government's plans may help just 45,000-95,000 more disabled people into work. 1/2

Read our latest work with Learning and Work Institute estimating the impacts of the extra employment support: learningandwork.org.uk/resources/rese… 2/2

The announced changes to disability benefits will lead to very substantial falls in income for some families. While some families will gain a small amount from the changes, others will lose thousands of pounds a year.

Young people not in education, employment or training in the UK remains high at over 900,000 Latest stats: ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…

Disabled households are more likely to be in poverty, than non-disabled households, even before these proposed changes to disability benefits. Really useful analysis by Resolution Foundation highlighting the potential impact.

Excellent piece from Armando Iannucci on tackling poverty, inc Trussell figures showing the UK loses out on over £75bn a year due to severe hardship "The best argument against those who repeatedly chime that nothing can be done will be the demonstration that some things can." 👏🏽

Keir Starmer backs end of two child benefit cap and tells Treasury to find the money - my story for The Observer observer.co.uk/news/national/…

All kids deserve a decent start in life and scrapping the two-child limit will remove hundreds of thousands of children from poverty overnight.  If government is serious about its promise to improve living standards and reduce child poverty, the policy must go, and fast.

The changes that the Government will be making to PIP eligibility are most likely to impact claimants over 40, with musculoskeletal conditions. Louise Murphy explains ⤵️

The government was due to announce it's child poverty strategy in the spring but Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner confirms the plan will now be published in autumn. Critics say that could push many more children into poverty.

At the upcoming Spending Review, the Government can deliver a long-term settlement for the Household Support Fund, the largest form of discretionary crisis support in England. Read 'Renew and improve' today, published with support from @nuffieldfoundation.org ⤵️

Ministers considering scrapping two-child benefit cap, education secretary says news.sky.com/story/minister…

Deirdre said the reason people are going to food banks is "not because we mismanage money. It's not because we can't budget. It's because there isn't enough to budget." "Universal Credit is not enough to live on."