
UNISON resource: Bargaining for the Living Wage
UNISON has published a July 2018 guide to assist branches in establishing the Living Wage as the minimum pay rate in an organisation.
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UNISON has published a July 2018 guide to assist branches in establishing the Living Wage as the minimum pay rate in an organisation.

There are over 2 million children in England living in families with substantial complex needs, and that of these 1.6 million children have no established, recognised form of additional support.
This is from the 2018 annual report (pdf) from Children’s Commissioner which explores the assets, resources and competencies of vulnerable children, with a particular focus on children with experience of domestic violence.

Poverty is gendered. Women in the UK are slightly more likely to live in poverty than men when this is measured on the usual household basis (21% of adult women, compared to 19% of adult men in 2016-17).
This is from the July 2018 report (pdf) from the Women’s Budget Group on the causes of poverty among women and the consequences that poverty has on women’s lives.

The talents of more than a million people aged over 50 who want to work are being wasted because of discrimination, bias and outdated employment

27% of the prison population are from BME groups, compared to 14% of the general population. A July 2018 report by Runnymede and the Centre