Austerity News

See who’s saying what on Austerity and how different sections of the Press approach the same story.

Food bank network hands out record 1.6m food parcels in a year

Food bank handouts at record levels

Food bank use hits record high as emergency supply packages surpass 1.5 million in 12 months, figures show

Almost 2m people will lose £1,000 a year with universal credit

Millions of claimants ‘will be poorer under universal credit’

Universal Credit set to leave 1.9million people worse off by £1,000 a year

Newborn baby deaths may be on rise among poorest in England

Rough sleeping figures cannot be trusted, says statistics chief

Councils accused of ‘social cleansing’ as fines issued for rough sleeping in breach of government guidelines

Councils accused of ‘social cleansing’ with £100 fines for rough sleeping

Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population

Special-needs children lose out on £1.2bn of support, says union

Children with special needs forced out of school for years as funding fails to meet demand

Some school children ‘go without eating for two days’ as child poverty increases, teachers warn

Tories slash town halls’ spending on youth services by 70% Jeremy Corbyn claims

Fag in mouth, pint in hand, Nigel Farage is ready to ride his Brexit Party to abject failure

Council tax debts soar 40% in six years

Two-thirds of councils say they can’t afford to comply with homelessness law

Macron demands EMERGENCY mechanism to FORCE no deal if Brexiteers ‘misbehave’

UK child poverty crisis exposed – search to see how bad it is in your area

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