There were 62,000 homeless families living in temporary accommodation in England at the end of 2018. Among these families were 124,000 children. This according to
‘The DWP needs to abolish the 5 week wait for Universal Credit (UC)’ says the July 2019 report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Universal Credit.
‘Our housing system is in crisis and the causes and impacts of that crisis are gendered’ says the July 2019 report from the Women’s Budget Group.
An estimated 160,000 families have already been affected by the two-child limit to date; the majority are working families and the majority have just three children.
@EHRC have published their strategic plan for 2019-2022, which explains how they will protect and promote equality and human rights in Britain..
‘Stop counterposing race and class’, says the July 2019 report (pdf) from Runnymede Trust and CLASS. ‘We are ghosts’: race, class and institutional prejudice makes the case that the working class is not white but multi-ethnic and has always included migrants.
‘The bottom line is that much of the glue that has held British society together since the Second World War has been deliberately removed and
‘Many in younger generations are struggling to find secure, well-paid jobs and secure, affordable housing, while many in older generations risk not receiving the support
‘Playing a meaningful role in the Inquiry is important for bereaved people who cannot properly begin to grieve until they have found out the truth
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people have the worst outcomes of any ethnic group across a huge range of areas, including education, health, employment, criminal justice and hate crime.
This is according to the April 2019 Women and Equalities Committee report (pdf) on inequalities facing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
