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It is dismaying, though not really surprising, that lone parents and their children are very nearly twice as likely to be living in relative poverty with less than 60% of the national median income than families with two parents. Over the past decade or so, the work on reducing child poverty led by Gordon Brown when he was chancellor has been comprehensively undone. Conservative benefit cuts and changes aimed at reducing public spending, and incentivising work
stanley becher by making welfare more conditional, have disproportionately harmed many already vulnerable groups. That around 1.5 million children and their lone parents, 90% of whom ar
stanley deutschland e mothers, face such severe hardship should shame the ministers responsible.It is almost a century since the suffragist and later MP Eleanor Rathbone published her pioneering analysis of motherhood and poverty in her 1924 book The Disinherited Family. The child allowances she advocated became a cornerstone of welfare policy after the second world war, in recognition of the fact that primary carers then, as now, mostl
stanley mug y mothers need support in order to care. Yet, while the benefit remains, many of the assumptions that underpinned it have been stripped away. The message communicated by such policies as the two-child limit and benefit cap has been that having children is a kind of luxury 鈥?not a vital task that parents perform on behalf of society as a whole.Analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation confirms tha Wboc Term-time holiday ban would criminalise parents, supreme court told
The Metropolitan Police Service has introduced teams of officers to conduct stop and search operations using s
stanley uk ection 60 of the Public Order Act 1994, a power that allows officers to search anyone for weapons without the reasonable suspicion usually required before someone can be searched.According to the last published Home Office figures, only 14% of searches in London were for weapons. With gun and knife c
stanley mugs rime and teenage murders such a major concern in London and across the country, clearly the police had to do more, but is this the right police response The answer to gun and knife crime, and indeed most types of crime including terrorism, is not the draconian application of force by the police but the active participation of the public in the policing process, traditionally known as policing by consent . The current solution of teams of officers using unjustified by reasonable suspicion stop and search is likely to undermine trust and confidence in the police, making the police even less effective.Some 27 years after the Brixton riots when the community vented its anger on the police for excessive and discriminatory use of stop and search, you are still almost five times more likely to be stopped and searched if you are black in London, and even more so in the rest of the UK, than if you are white, an inexcusable unfairness that is getting worse.Senior police officers are caught on the horns of a dilemma when it come
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