Jackie Long
Who cares after young people leave care?
“They come from a system where they are supposed to be looked after and it feels like they leave the system and they just get left and thrown away.”
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FactCheck: Corbyn cherry-picks child poverty stats
The Labour leader claimed child poverty has risen by half a million since 2010. But it’s only half the story.
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Jackie Long
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Jackie Long
‘Threatened’ for publicising poverty: an uncharitable tale
Charities working with the poorest in society say government attitudes to their work are increasingly hostile.
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FactCheck: are child poverty and inequality falling?
David Cameron says inequality and poverty have improved on his watch. So is the government on target to eradicate child poverty?
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Jackie Long
The unexpected costs of the ‘welfare revolution’
If the government’s “welfare revolution” is to work , then it has to work in places like Torfaen, a south Wales community where direct payments are being trialled.
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Jackie Long
Families hit hard by scrapping of council tax benefits
If you’re one of the 2.34 million low-income families who used to get council tax benefit, you’ll be paying on average £149 more in council tax this year than just over a year ago.
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Jackie Long
Child poverty: rhetoric and reality
While ministers wring their hands about the official definition of poverty, low-paid workers are embarrassed and isolated.
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Jackie Long
The growing number of hungry children in poverty Britain
Much is made of the need to educate children about healthy eating. But what of the thousands of children whose parents cannot afford to put enough meals, of any quality, on the table?
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Jackie Long
The hugely stressful fight for a primary school place
The reality for many is a hugely stressful fight to get something that you might hope would be a given – a place at school where your child is safe, happy and getting the best possible education.
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Jackie Long
What if people can’t – or won’t – pay council tax?
It’s hard not to avoid a subtext in the government’s new council tax support scheme, that it’s part of a move to encourage – or push – people back into work.
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Jackie Long
Children enduring the ‘boring’ business of being poor
As the government decides to change the way that poverty is measured, Jackie Long writes about the “boring” business of being poor.
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FactCheck: Can the government hit child poverty targets?
“After much prevarication, government spokesmen have told us the 2020 targets still stand, including that irksome pledge to have fewer than 10 per cent of the nation’s children living in households that earn 60 per cent of the nation median.”
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Yvette Cooper challenges Nick Clegg on child poverty
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper writes to Nick Clegg about his “unfounded and misleading rhetoric” on child poverty after FactCheck found he got his facts wrong.
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Did child poverty go up under Labour?
Helping the poorest in society was in Labour’s DNA. But according to Nick Clegg, after thirteen years of a Labour government, child poverty has gone up not down. Shocking, if true. So is it?