The Secret Cuts: Part One, Social Care
In the first of a series, Alan White and Kate Belgrave report on how, around the country, councils are looking to make savings under the radar. Here, they explore how plans to outsource social care...
View ArticleThe Secret Cuts: Part Two, The Independent Living Fund
The Independent Living Fund is vital to anyone who has a severe impairment and still hopes to live their life. Alan White and Kate Belgrave explore the decision to close it and devolve its work to...
View ArticleThe Secret Cuts: Part Three, The Bedroom Tax
Continuing their series on the Coalition's secret cuts, Alan White and Kate Belgrave find out how the introduction of the "bedroom tax" is affecting people's lives.This post is about the bedroom tax...
View ArticleThe Secret Cuts, Part Four: Personal Independence Payments
Continuing their series on the Coalition's secret cuts, Kate Belgrave and Alan White investigate the problems arising from outsourced face-to-face assessments. Does the DWP even know what its policy on...
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The Secret Cuts: Part Five, The Low-Pay Debate
Continuing their series on the Coalition's secret cuts, Alan White and Kate Belgrave explore how workers are being bludgeoned into accepting wages that are too low to live on.There was a big story this...
View ArticleThe Secret Cuts: Part Six, How are those with mental health problems treated...
With complaints about the failed Atos work capability assessment flooding in, Alan White and Kate Belgrave look at some of them.Tony Lea, who runs the Cornish benefit advice charity Bufferzone, wants...
View ArticleNine spectacular council outsourcing failures
Alan White and Kate Belgrave give us more reasons why you don’t want the private sector in the NHS.One of the many concepts that free marketeers refuse to abandon in the face of all evidence is the...
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