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Article: 01.12.19
Why I Wrote Second Class Citizens
Stef Benstead found that many people, like Christian Conservatives, care about poverty but have false beliefs about…
Paper: 27.11.19
Influences and Consequences
In the conclusion to the Preventable Harm Project Mo Stewart shows how US companies and right-wing ideology have…
Slide: 28.10.19
Self-Directed Support and Social Justice
Self-directed support is a matter of social justice... but it is constantly threatened by consumerism and…
Inspiration: 24.10.19
Inclusion Press
Jack Pearpoint, Lynda Kahn and Cathy Hollands have recently updated the Inclusion Press website and are keen to share…
Paper: 23.10.19
Canaries in the Coal Mine
Newcastle Council for Voluntary Service (NCVS) share their 2019 report on the state of the voluntary, community and…
Article: 02.08.19
Bill of Rights Including Social Rights
Human rights need the full protection of the constitution, social rights + right to access the law must be included.
Review: 24.07.19
Crippled by Austerity
Simon Duffy reviews Frances Ryan's important book which describes the devastating impact of the UK Government's…
Paper: 27.06.19
An Emancipatory Welfare State
A draft consultation paper setting out the arguments for a basic income for people with disabilities.
Project: 24.05.19
Anti-Austerity
Resisting UK Government attacks on the welfare state
Project: 23.05.19
Sustainability & Justice
Exploring how to live with justice in harmony with the planet.
Article: 23.05.19
Shameful Attack on Disabled People
Brian Collinge explains how the government's failure to update the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) for people…
Project: 04.01.19
Sustainability & Social Justice
Learning how to live with justice in harmony with the planet
Review: 20.12.18
Austerity's Victims
One million adults with a learning disability in the UK who have suffered because of government measures since 2010.
Paper: 17.12.18
Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA)
A statement from the Centre for the #WOWdebate on the Government's reasons for refusing to carry out a Cumulative…
Story: 03.12.18
The Injustice of Benefit Sanctions
The welfare system has become punitive, even more bureaucratic and humiliating. It delivers pain instead of support…
Paper: 25.10.18
US Corporate Influence on UK Welfare Reforms
Mo Stewart has been researching the damage caused by welfare reform and the malign influence of US private insurance…
Article: 25.09.18
Mental Health and Tentacled Snowballs
An anonymous article describing how medical and bureaucratic approaches to mental health undermine flexible and…
Paper: 25.09.18
GaN Canny 2018
Over 168 voluntary and community organisations from Gateshead and Newcastle responded to a survey by Newcastle CVS on…
Paper: 24.09.18
Extreme Poverty in a Time of Austerity
This summary of the harm caused by the UK Government's austerity policies was submitted to the UN Special Rapporteur on…
Film: 10.08.18
Does Money Make You Mean?
In this TEDx film, Paul Piff shares his research into how people behave when they feel wealthy.
Article: 06.07.18
What is the alternative to neoliberalism?
Simon Duffy reflects on the intellectual and practical challenge facing thinkers opposed to the current neoliberal…
Film: 25.06.18
Why Northamptonshire Went Bust
Simon Duffy explains why Northamptonshire went bust and what kind of thinking is required to return local government…
Article: 02.06.18
A Constitution for Disability Rights
8 reasons why disability rights activists should support constitutional reform.
Article: 25.05.18
How to Fund the NHS and Public Services
Gavin Barker summarises the arguments for Modern Monetary Theory and explains why government does not need to be bound…
Paper: 09.04.18
Letters to the DWP
Correspondence between Mo Stewart, the independent disability researcher, and officials at the DWP, reveals the…
Article: 12.03.18
Workers' Rights Versus the Right to Care
UK social policy has created a severe, but unnecessary conflict between the rights of workers and disabled people.
Article: 12.03.18
Behind Relative Poverty
The stories in Relative Poverty address the imbalance of power; Les Monaghan describes the thinking behind his…
Paper: 14.02.18
A Grounded Theory Study of Disability Benefit Changes
Jessica Saffer carried out doctoral research into the psychological impact of Government changes to the disability…
Story: 12.02.18
Government Cuts are Slowly Killing Me
Lorraine Howard describes how the closure of the ILF and cuts in social care in Coventry are slowly killing her.
Paper: 03.01.18
Deleted BBC News Item on Unum
In 2007 the BBC reported on the influence that a US insurance company was having on UK policy, in 2010 this item was…
Article: 05.12.17
Don't Crowd Out People with Learning Disabilities
Alain Catzeflis argues that people with disabilities are being harmed by bad Government policy and people with…
Paper: 10.09.17
Social Rights Are Human Rights
Paul Hunt explains that social rights are fundamental human rights, but that in the UK these rights are not taken…
Review: 05.09.17
Reclaiming the Common Good
A review of Reclaiming the Common Good: How Christians can help re-build a broken world, a collection of essays edited…
Paper: 26.06.17
National Debt v Right to Social Security
International researcher Alison Graham shares her PhD thesis exploring the targeting of cuts on disabled people,…
Article: 05.06.17
The Politics of Poverty
Dr Simon Duffy explores ONS data on inequality and poverty and tries to get behind the myths and lies used to exploit the…
Graphic: 05.06.17
Collapse of Social Care (2009-2016)
Austerity has seen a radical reduction in the number of people supported by adult social care, with a 40% drop in 6 years.
Graphic: 05.06.17
Public Expenditure & GDP (1976-2019)
Data on public spending in the UK suggests that public spending has oscillated around 40% and seems utterly…
Graphic: 05.06.17
How Incomes Changed (percent) (1977-2014)
Between 1977 and 2014 tax and benefit policy has been designed primarily to life the incomes of middle-income families
Graphic: 05.06.17
How Incomes Changed (1977-2014)
Between 1977 and 2014 tax and benefit policy in the UK has been designed primarily to lift the incomes of middle-income…
Graphic: 05.06.17
Changing Post-Tax-Benefit Incomes (1977-2014)
Government policy, from 1977 to 2014 has primarily focused on lifting the incomes of middle-income groups while…
Graphic: 05.06.17
Changing Income Distribution (1977-2014)
Between 1977 and 2014 the most dramatic changes incomes were of the richest, whose incomes increased radically, and…
Graphic: 05.06.17
The Different Kinds of UK Benefits
Benefit expenditure is primarily focused on pensions, housing costs and the collapse in middle-income salaries.
Graphic: 05.06.17
Real Poverty
Poverty is not just lack of money, its also isolation, disadvantage and exclusion
Graphic: 05.06.17
How Benefits are Distributed
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Graphic: 05.06.17
Growth v Equality
Since 1949 income inequality has got progressively worse, however this has no positive economic effect on growth.
Review: 31.05.17
Doughnut Economics
Conventional economics is broken. Here is the radical alternative we need to shape a better future which works for…
Article: 26.05.17
Industrialised Humanity
David Zigmond reviews the film I, Daniel Blake and argues that it reveals, not only the cost of austerity, but also the…
Album: 09.05.17
Relative Poverty
Materials developed by Les Monaghan as part of his project to show the reality of poverty in modern Britain.
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