by The Editor | Nov 10, 2017 | Featured, Politics
Tory cuts costs lives A 38-year-old mother, Elaine Morrall died alone and cold while wearing a coat and a scarf indoors because she could not afford to pay for heating and had switched it off until her children got home from school. Elaine’s family said that her...
by The Editor | Sep 14, 2017 | Politics
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry opened today in the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms. An advert for the hotel was prominently on show as the inquiry opened: The CEO of the De Vere group is Andrew Coppel – who was one of the business leaders who signed a letter to the...
by The Editor | Sep 3, 2017 | Politics
When the Scottish Government announced that the newly devolved training schemes they will be running in place of the dreaded Work Programme will not be mandatory, all of us familiar with the impact of sanctions heaved a collective sigh of relief. So it was with an...
by The Editor | Aug 29, 2017 | Politics
The guidelines for PIP assessors make it quite clear that anyone going to an assessment, or any person accompanying them, can take their own private written notes of the meeting. The same is true for Work Capability Assessments for ESA. These notes can be doubly...
by The Editor | Aug 20, 2017 | Politics
Along with hundreds of others I recently submitted a short story to @twenty4stories the project which aims to raise money for PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) – related needs (see here for more detail...
