Why we need a new vision for an economy where everyone can flourish A response to the budget update on 8th July 2020. The Chancellor’s budget update yesterday focused on building employment. The scale of the challenge ahead is huge, and an emergency …
Poverty and Inequality
Keep KitKat Fairtrade
Nestlé has announced that from October 2020 KitKats will no longer contain Fairtrade cocoa and sugar. Instead, Nestlé is moving to the promotion of its own Cocoa Plan and the Rainforest Alliance certification. As a result 27,000 sugar and cocoa farmers will lose the Fairtrade Premium …
When home isn’t safe
We’re told that right now home is the safest place for us to be. That home is our sanctuary during the outbreak of this global pandemic. However, for the millions of people across the world, predominantly women, who experience domestic violence, this understanding of home is far from their …
How can you self-isolate without a house?
Image: Decode Homeless, Twitter Homelessness is always a moral failure for society. At JPIT, we’ve talked before about why a home is ‘more than bricks than mortar’. Housing is central to a person’s ability to flourish. Right now, though, there’s an extra reason why dealing with the …
Supporting everyone during the Coronavirus crisis
The response to COVID-19 has seen the government take unprecedented measures to strengthen the support available for those who need it. Changes have already been made to Statutory Sick Pay. The government have announced a job retention scheme, offering grant support for employers to retain employees …
How to help foodbanks under pressure
The Coronavirus pandemic is placing pressure across society. This is increasingly affecting the most vulnerable in our communities, who are finding it harder to access the support they need. Already, more families need help from foodbanks. For some people work has dried up and the benefit system …
Week Three: Home
Ellie's Story "My name is Ellie and I’ve been homeless for a few months now. It’s tough out here, and for a woman, it’s dangerous too. For 15 years, I had a house, where I lived with my three children. Now, I get shelter where I can or sleep on the streets, and my children aren’t with me …
How many children are “Growing up Poor”?
There are a number of measures of child poverty and all agree that child poverty is rising. Tonight’s Channel 4’s Dispatches programme “Growing up Poor” gives some of the children affected by poverty the chance to tell their own stories – and is incredibly powerful as a result. It is great …
Week One: Unlikely Messengers
Jackie's Story "In my teens, estranged from my family, I lived in a flat for young homeless people. The heating system was inadequate, the flat was damp and in the winter sheets of ice would form on the inside of the metal framed windows. I had so little money I often skipped meals and I …
Brexit: more scrutiny not less
Coming to work this morning, I passed eight bodies huddled in doorways, homeless people bedded down with sleeping bags and blankets. One of them had laid yesterday’s newspapers under him. The front page headline showed Prince Andrew, with a much smaller sidebar about Prime Minister’s decision to …