About Events Articles Interact Contact About Events Articles Interact Contact Welsh Government Manifesto South Wales Equality Group have recently published our manifesto, focusing on reducing socio-economic inequalities and the impact of those inequalities by focusing...
About Events Articles Interact Contact About Events Articles Interact Contact Newport Fairness Commisson has defined its 4 principles for making decisions about fairness. You can follow their work on their website and Twitter Equity We should acknowledge differences...
About Events Articles Interact Contact About Events Articles Interact Contact Understanding the housing crisis: Housing and Land – a brief introduction What is limiting the availability of affordable new-build accommodation in Britain today? This is a...
About Activities News/Articles Reference Contact About Activities News/Articles Reference Contact An article was published recently in the local media [1], regarding a house advertised for sale in Swansea for £2.6 million and it raises the question – how...
About Activities News/Articles Reference Contact About Activities News/Articles Reference Contact ‘Housing’ refers to all the kinds of accommodation people can live in. ‘Housing’ has an intimate connection to inequality and particularly to inequalities of income and...
About Activities News/Articles Reference Contact About Activities News/Articles Reference Contact Low Income There has been a recent and damning report on poverty in the UK compiled by a United Nations Special Rapporteur, which shows that 1/5 of the population – i.e....
May 17, 2022 @ 11:53
Two in five Universal Credit claims are affected by deductions with ~2 million UC payments below levels officially set by the government: https://t.co/8JTyL4Ae2Y
This doesn't just undermine adequacy of benefits, it also compromises the government's levelling up agenda
May 9, 2022 @ 6:36
My comment on these figures on food insecurity:
"If 1 household in 7 is food insecure, society is failing in a fundamental way. These figures on food insecurity are all the more chilling because the problem is soluble." https://t.co/KKYU6XDIPv
Apr 27, 2022 @ 13:41
Food banks, their staff & volunteers are doing incredibly important work to support families who have fallen through the gaping holes of our inadequate social security safety net.
But emergency food aid is not a long-term, sustainable nor dignified response to poverty. https://t.co/rju1lroYEL
Apr 18, 2022 @ 12:18
As @TorstenBell says, the main way people become wealthy in Britain today is to make sure that they have rich parents! You can 'be the best that you can be', be a 'striver not a shirker' etc. but in our Tory meritocracy being born privileged is what makes most of the difference. https://t.co/mE8xqu51ub