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PSYCHOLOGISTS and social workers are joining forces to fight the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on the well-being and future of young people.
In a motion asking for support for their campaign from the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) AGM this weekend, the Social Workers Union (SWU) and the Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP) will call for pressure on the government to act.
The two groups will highlight that 75 per cent of social workers strongly agreed that more children will come into care due to a cost-of-living crisis.
Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports
In part one of a two-part feature, CONOR BOLLINS asks whether we should be concerned about the Prime Minister’s military recruitment plans
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK