Industry News

• Cuts to housing benefit will drive down rents

  Source: Children & Young People Now

  5 November 2010

  Children & Young People Now reports that children's minister Sarah Teather has been forced to defend changes to housing benefit, saying the government's measures would help drive down market rents in the long-term. Read more...

• Schadenfreude (pleasure taken in somebody else’s misfortune)

  5 November 2010

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• Children from broken homes 'nine times more likely to commit crimes'

  Source: The Telegraph

  4 November 2010

  The Telegraph reports that Work & Pensions Secretary Ian Duncan Smith said this statistic is due to the breakdown of marriage, as well as addiction, crime and lost productivity and tax revenues that, in all, cost Britain around £100 billion a year. Read more...

• Conservatives in disarray over prisoner voting

  Source: The Independent

  4 November 2010

  The Independent reports that David Cameron is facing a backlash from his party after reluctantly bowing to a European court ruling that prisoners should be given the right to vote. Ministers are drawing up plans to allow inmates on shorter sentences – but not the most serious... Read more...

• Majority of Big Society Bank funds to be earmarked for youth projects

  Source: Children & Young People Now

  4 November 2010

  In Children & Young People Now, Tim Loughton, junior children's minister, said at the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services’ annual conference that the primary focus of the Big Society Bank will be to fund youth projects. Read more...

• Bigger welfare state 'reduces hard drug use'

  Source: The Guardian

  4 November 2010

  The Guardian features a story on research which suggests that reducing the use of drugs would be better tackled by having a bigger welfare state, rather than criminalising addicts. The work, published today, shows countries that provide a generous social security system have low levels of injecting drug use,... Read more...