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Frozen housing costs support is putting unsustainable pressure on renters' budgets: 48% of private renters getting UC across the UK have cut back on essentials in the last 6 months The no. of private renters we helped w/ housing benefit, who were also referred to foodbanks is up 79% since 21/22

Less than 2% of rents affordable for benefit claimants, report warnsPeople are being forced into a ‘cycle of debt, poverty and homelessness’, a charity chief saidwww.independent.co.uk

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like DrowningDrowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.slate.com

Hooray, our World Cup 2026 Wall Chart is FINISHED 🥳 It's our biggest wall chart ever, an A1-sized shambles sullied by SIXTY wonky doodles. Dunno if competitions fly on Bluesky, but if you share this we'll send a couple of freebies out to some (un)lucky RTers x 🛒 noscoredraws.com/products/wor...

World Cup 2026 Wall Chart - No Score Draws A1 WC2026 Poster Print - ExOur biggest ever wonky World Cup Wall Chart for the biggest ever World Cup! Yes it's the 2026 World Cup, so to keep track of all the ins and outs, the kick-of times, scores and tables, here's a HUGE A...noscoredraws.com

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

For the second day, the person engaging in the unlawful practice is not a lawyer or an immigration advisor. Yet this nuance is totally absent from the framing. For the second day, the specific example on which the article is based makes un-evidencrd links to rising claims. It's deplorable.

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

The govt wants to get more disabled people into work, but isn't making full use of the tools at its disposal In my new report for @citizensadvice.bsky.social I've looked at how our social security system could do more to make sure that when disabled people want to work, work really does pay /1

Awssan remembers the day he woke up to the sound of bombing in Yemen as a child. Following the outbreak of civil war in 1994, his family fled to the UK where he has lived since. Awssan is one of the 2025 #RefugeeWeek Ambassadors and storytelling is his superpower #CommunityAsASuperpower

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