Without swift action, the cost-of-living crisis risks driving even more vulnerable people into the hands of criminal lenders.
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It might smack of ‘social engineering’, but the UK needs to tackle the structural disincentives to starting a family before it’s too late.
For lots of women, their ‘insecure’ immigration status means their abuser can deport them, should they blow the whistle.
Ensuring that everyone has a decent, affordable and secure home is one of the fundamental public policy challenges of our time.
But prisons policy won’t gain more priority from politicians without doing so from the rest of us.
How have think-tanks and campaign groups responded to the Chancellor’s fiscal and economic initiatives?
Targeted support aimed at making work pay or supporting families with children would be a wiser use of the money.
Ministers should grasp the nettle on living standards, reform childcare and encourage employers to help family life.
This is not something to dismiss lightly, and we must take this as a clarion call to action.
Some £18 billion a year is incurred as a cost to the taxpayer as a result of reoffending.
The Education Select Committee, which I Chair, has published a report on how we can strengthen this type of education.
It should build on the success of its Housing First scheme and create a National Housing First Programme.
With half of children not ready to start school in 2021, more must be done to help toddlers’ parents.