Posts tagged Welfare Reform

Being unable to heat your home, being unable to buy food, living with debt – this is the reality that thousands of people wake up to each morning. Read more

Introduction SCVO welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the planned debate on welfare reform. Our short briefing highlights: The concerns of the sector as welfare reform continues to affect the lives of individuals, communities and families with often devastating consequences... Read more

Lynn blogs about the need for more compassion and understanding in advance of tonight's Dispatches: Benefits Britain and Benefits Street. Read more

Motion That the Parliament notes with concern the ever increasing rise in the number of people relying on food banks in Scotland and across the UK; considers that it is not only the unemployed, but also those underemployed or underpaid who are increasingly becoming reliant on... Read more

A new pledge sees rivals SNP and Scottish Labour unite against the bedroom tax. Let’s make sure they get it right. Read more

Benefits sanctions might provide a short term fix but they're bad for job seekers and bad for the economy. Read more

More options download as a PDF document download as a Word document Introduction SCVO welcomes the opportunity to respond to this review of sanctions within the Jobseekers Allowance regime. Our aim in this response is to highlight the devastating impact of sanctions on... Read more

Introduction I would first like to say thank you to Sally, who is here tonight with Jamie and Luke, and to Martin Sime for asking me to give this lecture. I am truly honoured. I deeply respected Stephen Maxwell. He had such integrity and a real and serious concern about... Read more

Channel 4's latest documentary adds to the dangerous anti-benefits rhetoric. Read more

1. Underpinning objectives and principles Earlier this year, SCVO produced a paper which outlined third sector thinking about the principles and objectives which might underpin a future welfare settlement in Scotland. The paper argues that the starting point for welfare in... Read more