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Charities press for ringfencing of money for vulnerable people
8 Jan 2012:Charities say welfare reforms will see funds meant for the destitute or victims of domestic violence get lost in the system
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8 Jan 2012: Letters: We are deeply concerned at the government's proposals to abolish these elements of the social fund and pass some of the funding to local authorities, without any statutory obligation to ensure they provide emergency support to vulnerable people
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4 Jan 2012: Letters: Housing benefit is designed to redress imbalances between income and rents, whatever a claimant's source of income. Only a minority of claimants are unemployed
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4 Jan 2012:
Ministers say it is a scandal that so few teenagers are getting at least a C in the 'English baccalaureate' of six core subjects
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1 Jan 2012: Other lives: Former Labour MP for Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, he saw the party as his way of making the world a better place
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1 Jan 2012: The big issue: People resort to food banks when social systems fail
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30 Dec 2011:
Editorial: We are entering a new age of inequality, especially within countries and especially in the emerging powers
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28 Dec 2011: Letters: It has been good to see the spotlight on the rotten state of adoption in the UK
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22 Dec 2011: Ken Clarke's cuts are a false economy that will mean more disabled people stay on the wrong benefits, says Kathy Peach
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20 Dec 2011: Cameron's plan to rescue troubled families from themselves is all talk and no action
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19 Dec 2011:
She tackled Glasgow's gangs and slashed violent crime. So how did Karyn McCluskey get such startling results in a city once known as the murder capital of western Europe?
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19 Dec 2011: Deputy prime minister says he wants lower taxes on work and effort but a greater contribution from the wealthy
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18 Dec 2011: Letters: Cameron leads a government serving mammon in the utmost, striving ever to advance the interests of the 1% towards ever greater riches at the expense of the truly needy
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