Supported housing is accommodation where residents receive support, supervision or care. Housebuilding targets include targets for supported accommodation; however, housing associations and local authorities have argued that government funding is not sufficient to enable enough to be built. Concerns have been raised about the quality of supported housing, which is largely paid for by housing benefit.
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Apr
Apr
Over the last decade, the number of social rented homes in England has fallen by more than 100,000. Into this void has emerged ‘temporary accommodation’. This is accommodation councils offer to homeless households while they wait to be offered a settled home.
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Mar
Mar
Worker surveillance is as old as work itself, but new technology is making it easier and cheaper than ever.
30
Mar
Mar
More than 3,000 people with Long Covid responded to new TUC and Long Covid Support Employment Group survey
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Mar
Mar
More Tax Credit claimants will soon be asked to claim Universal Credit as the Government expands the movement of legacy benefit claimants to the modern benefit system.
28
Mar
Mar
The High Income Child Benefit Charge provides for Child Benefit to be clawed back through the tax system from families where the highest earner has an income in excess of £50,000.
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Mar
Mar
New Kent-led research on behalf of a coalition of rural charities and housing associations has revealed that the countryside is battling a ‘hidden homelessness’ crisis driven by soaring housing costs and a gaping shortfall in local authority funding.
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Mar
Mar
Results from the Family Resources Survey (FRS) for the financial year 2021 to 2022, providing information on income and circumstances of UK households.
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Mar
Mar
As the cost of living crisis rages on, the UK’s social safety net has a critical role to play in protecting people from deepening poverty and destitution.
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Mar
Mar
The UK’s system of income replacement – financial protection when people leave a job or stop working temporarily – is an inadequate patchwork. Jobseeker’s allowance replaces just 12 per cent of average earnings and statutory sick pay just 16 per cent. For the most part, this falls far behind the support available in other rich countries.