In January 2019, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy published a consultation on extending redundancy protection for pregnant women and new parents. The
The Domestic Abuse Bill will prohibit perpetrators of abuse from cross-examining their victims in person in the family courts. This is according to policy paper from the Home Office on the measures in the Bill.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Low Pay Commission are seeking views on the proposals made by the Commission, to address the issue of ‘one-sided flexibility’.
‘The individual approach to enforcement of equality law is no longer fit for purpose’ says the July 2019 report from the Women and Equalities Committee on their year-long inquiry.
In November 2018, the Commission for Countering Extremism launched a consultation in order to build understanding and evidence on all forms of extremism and, to examine the Government’s current responses to it.
In July 2019, the Commission published a statistical summary of the responses received.
‘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.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are seeking views on proposals to better support parents to balance work and family-life.
‘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.
‘Well before the 2016 referendum, media discourse blamed EU migrants for economic and social problems’ says the 2019 June paper (pdf) from Dr Sara Benedi
