Major reforms to Welsh care system needed, finds Senedd committee
Report raises concerns about near 23% rise in children in care over 10 years amid serious shortage of social workers
January 2022
DWP rule change amounts to a cruel dual punishment of jobseekers
Universal credit claimants face tough sanctions in UK job crackdown
July 2021
At least 75,000 people in England wait six months for social care assessment
Adult social care ‘waiting lists’ condemned as unacceptable as people at risk of deterioration, abuse or neglect
June 2021
Benefits claimants suffering under end-of-life DWP rule
Terminally ill, disabled and mentally ill people spending final weeks struggling to get social security help
May 2020
Text message tells vulnerable people they are dropped from shielding list
Outcry after some in England told they would lose government support without doctors being able to talk to them first
November 2019
Older people dying for want of social care at rate of three an hour
Age UK estimates that between last general election and next, 74,000 of cohort in England have died or will die waiting for care
December 2018
Fewer young people in treatment for drugs yet more admit to use
Public England reports 5% fall in under-18s in therapy but substance abuse found rising, along with concern at cuts
October 2018
Cornwall's tent home for teenager: woman tells of anguish for son
Local authority’s treatment of 17-year-old was callous and broke us, says mother
June 2018
Care for our children is in crisis. We must give their families more help
Louise Tickle
The state spends a spiralling amount on vulnerable children yet fails to protect them. We need to focus on supporting parents, says writer Louise Tickle
January 2018
Esther McVey makes disability benefits U-turn over payments
High court ruling says policy was discriminatory against people with mental health issues
December 2017
Letters: One rule on immigration for Dover and another for the Irish border?
Endless excuses and stalling are damaging the prospects of an acceptable trade deal
November 2016
Other lives
Bill Ogilvie obituary
Other lives: Senior officer for the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation
September 2016
Dungavel immigration detention centre will close, says minister
Lanarkshire ‘holding’ facility dubbed barbaric and inhumane to be replaced by new centre near Glasgow airport
February 2016
How New York City’s parents took on the welfare system – and changed it
Over the past two decades the number of children being taken into care in the city has plummeted, thanks to a grassroots social movement. What are the lessons for the UK?
January 2016
‘Going into legal aid work now is career suicide’
Government cuts to legal aid means social welfare lawyers are a dying breed. So where will the next generation come from? Step up the Justice First Fellowship
August 2015
Tributes to Rupert Hughes, a humble hero of Whitehall
Rupert Hughes obituary
June 2014
Abbott government unveils plan to restrict how young people spend dole
Tighter conditions for disability support pension among other likely changes to welfare system
May 2014
'The welfare state is not about dependency: it is about opportunity'
In her new book, Austerity Bites, Mary O'Hara argues that Cameron's dismantling of state support betrays future generations of poor children
