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21 Jun 2012: Polly Toynbee: It's no good leaving it to the market – regulation is urgently required to banish the culture of house-price gambling
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21 Jun 2012:
David Freud: We're working towards a welfare state that gives support to vulnerable people but doesn't abandon them to a life on benefits
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Video (2min 53sec), 21 Jun 2012:
Lynne Hows, a Branch officer on the Wirral for the PCS union, which represents jobcentre staff, talks about the lack of training and preparation staff have for dealing with vulnerable customers. Such customers are on the increase, she says, with many more being found fit for work. She was speaking on the picket line during a three-day walkout by PCS union in merseyside over cuts to frontline staff
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21 Jun 2012: Nick Pearce: Councils should be given an affordable housing grant to boost building, making rents – and subsidies – less expensive
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20 Jun 2012: Letters: At present, 58% of children living in poverty live in households where at least one adult works and the number is rising
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20 Jun 2012:
Today we are looking at school breakfast clubs, and the health impact of poverty and welfare reform
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20 Jun 2012: Work capability assessments, which identify those fit for work, are singled out for criticism by health professionals, campaigners and claimants
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Video (8min 41sec), 20 Jun 2012:
Ministers have insisted welfare reform will protect the most vulnerable. But the Guardian has seen a memo from senior jobcentre management that acknowledges changes to the benefits system could have 'profound results' for vulnerable claimants. The Guardian spoke to both Julie Carwardine and Richard Sykes about the financial and mental impact of losing their benefits
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Interactive, 20 Jun 2012:
The DWP memo on mental health risks of sickness benefit reform
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20 Jun 2012:
An internal email sent by senior managers warns that ill-handling of benefit changes could have 'profound results' for vulnerable claimants
• Read the memo here -
20 Jun 2012:
UK unemployment has dropped by 51,000. These are the claimant numbers in each parliamentary constituency. Get them where you live
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19 Jun 2012: Letters: The government's 'right to choice' and its 'community right to challenge' are a cover-up for privatisation by the back door
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19 Jun 2012:
Austerity: we're looking at the rise in the numbers of children arriving at school hungry
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Guardian Professional, 19 Jun 2012:
Here are the honest and sobering responses by teachers to the Guardian's pupil hunger survey
• "Breakfast should not be a two litre bottle of coke" -
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