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Children in some areas of Britain have so little contact with working people that they cannot answer the question “what do you want to be when you grow up?”, a report by an influential think-tank finds.
Britain is rife with welfare ghettos where more than half the working age population is dependent on unemployment benefits, a think-tank claims.
London's benefits bill has soared to more than the British defence budget, a new report warned today.
ONE THING is shockingly clear from the worrying report on welfare ghettos: taxpayers and an army of unemployed are paying the price for years of ineptitude and profligacy by the last Labour Government.
A new study has found areas where up to 67% of residents aged 16-64 claim benefits
Video - Al Jazeera shows the reality of modern slavery in the UK today
Teachers should help to set up new youth prisons, Chris Grayling has said.
Schools should open their own prisons in an attempt to raise standards of education for young offenders, the Justice Secretary has said.
Campaigners say there is a pressing need for independent leadership to tackle modern day slavery
Just one of the nine state-funded young offenders' institutions in England provides the statutory 15 hours of education each week, a think tank says.
Christian Guy, director from the Centre For Social Justice versus columnist Owen Jones on the roll out of the Conservatives new "Universal Credit", which is to replace a number of welfare payments all into one.
We need to appoint a Cabinet minister whose job is to promote marriage and good parenting
Figures from the UK's main provider of food banks show the number of people using its services more than doubled last year.
Annie Kelly discusses why forced labour is still a global problem with Leonardo Sakamoto, Beate Andrees, Romana Cacchioli and Andrew Wallis
CSJ Director, Christian Guy, took part in a BBC 5 Live debate on welfare reform and said it is essential the Government sends a signal that work pays and that it is the surest route out of poverty.
Universal credit is about being ambitious for the poor.
URGENT action is needed to help a lost generation of children who are set to cost the country £22billion, says an influential think-tank.
Are children growing up in poverty in spite of the welfare state - or because of it?
Governments and politicians are using the wrong
metrics to measure child poverty. It’s time to widen
the scope so that a true picture can be obtained
The slave trade is alive and well in this country. Not only are slaves ‘brought in’ from abroad, but they are ‘exported’ too. And we Brits are not excluded from being forced into slavery.
More than 1,000 trafficking victims were found last year, but ministers remain "clueless" about the problem, a think tank says.
Britain's efforts to stop human trafficking are in a state of crisis and need a complete overhaul, a report from a think tank says.
Efforts to tackle modern slavery in the UK, including the sexual exploitation of children, are in a state of crisis, a new report has claimed.
CSJ Director, Christian Guy, discusses the benefit cap on BBC Newsnight
The middle classes should not expect help with care home bills, two right-leaning pressure groups said yesterday.
Long business supply chains are corruptible and can hide a multitude of crimes if no one checks for fraud or criminal activity
Judge a Government on its priorities. And then its priorities within priorities.
Christian Guy and Dr Sarah Wollaston MP
Thousands more will pay the tax to fund version of Dilnot plan for universal state funding for elderly and social care
Did Chris Huhne open his eyes this morning to a split second of calm before reality came crashing in?
Elizabeth Truss, the education minister, is giving a speech this morning announcing plans to overhaul childcare rules but...
"The UK's childcare system has for too long been unaffordable, inflexible and a barrier into work for parents.
Christian Guy believes 2013 is the year to tackle the tyranny of sink estates, no-go
neighbourhoods and child poverty, and to change how the government measures poverty.
The Government risks abandoning the most vulnerable pensioners if it introduces a cap on care cost contributions, a leading think tank has warned.
The Coalition risks abandoning some of the most vulnerable people in society if it introduces a cap on the amount of money people pay towards their care costs, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has said.
Domestic abuse “is the single greatest cause of harm in society,” a police chief warned yesterday as gangs tighten their grip on children as young as 10.
Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent John Sutherland was speaking at the Tackling Britain's Gang Culture conference, where people whose lives have been affected by gangs and street crime gathered to discuss the causes of the problems, the impact and possible solutions.
One of Britain's most senior police officers said today we are "addicted to violence", claiming abuse within the home "is the single greatest cause of harm in society".
Christian Guy, Managing Director of the Centre for Social Justice and Mathew Reed, Chief Executive of The Children's Society debate the latest government plans for benefit reform.
Christian Guy, Managing Director of the Centre for Social Justice, discusses welfare and child tax credits on BBC Newsnight
THE controversial cut in child benefit affecting more than one million families came into force at midnight, prompting claims the change could fuel the fire of family breakdown.
Most families who will lose all of their benefit under changes coming in on Monday have not taken step to stop payments
CSJ Chairman Mark Florman talks to the Telegraph in an exclusive interview.
The UK has one of the highest rates of family breakdown in the Western world with just two thirds of children living with both parents, according to research by a global development organisation.
The UK has one of the highest rates of family breakdown in the Western world with just two thirds of children living with both parents, according to research by a global development organisation.
Just two thirds of children still live with mother or father at the age of 14. Only in Latvia, Estonia and Belgium are children are statistics worse.
Only the Work and Pensions Secretary has the moral authority to push through the welfare reforms
After more than a decade of wrangling, it seems that a deal is finally about to be struck on long-term care of the elderly, by adopting the package proposed by economist Andrew Dilnot.
"We in Labour need to build our own story of the big society. Cameron’s version was too abstract."
Number of married people stays constant at 21.2 million while number of single adults rises by three million compared with 2001
CSJ researcher and expert in family policy Dr Samantha Callan was a panellist on Radio 4’s Any Questions? The show also featured Andrew Lansley MP, Chuka Umunna MP and Polly Toynbee.
The chancellor is still blaming the eurozone and Labour's legacy, while the opposition has yet to come up with an alternative
Millions of families receiving child benefit will see the value of the handout fall after George Osborne imposed an extra two years of real-terms cuts to the payments.
Just two weeks after the government's last child poverty consultation launch, another investigation into the causes of child poverty will be launched by the Conservatives' most influential thinktank – the Centre for Social Justice
FAMILY breakdown and a decline in the prominence of marriage are seen by the public as key causes of Britain’s social problems, according to a new survey.
In British cities, especially London, a street by street war is being fought.
'Old lags' including former gang members to act as mentors to inmates newly released from short sentences
With so many Britons living alone, the Government should promote getting wed
A crackdown on gang culture after last year's riots in England may have backfired, according to a new report.
Evidence that the arrest of more than 200 street gangs' leaders in the aftermath of the riots in August 2011 produced a spike in violence makes for depressing reading.
Police focus on arresting gang leaders while failing to act against other members has led to rise in violence
In his landmark speech on law and order David Cameron has said new criminal justice measures will be "strong and intelligent".
The riots of last summer served as a wake-up call to Britain. The broadcasts of young people on a rampage of looting and violence drew attention to the deprived communities.
Statistics and surveys may show that getting hitched is falling out of fashion but, as soon as children come along, every woman would rather be wed.
Families headed by married couples in the UK will be in a minority by 2050, according to a new report.
Married couples will be in the minority in little more than a generation and half of all children can now expect to see their parents separate, a shocking report reveals today.
London Tonight has conducted a special investigation into poverty in the capital. London is one of the richest cities in the world, a financial power, a magnet for a moneyed elite.
Men who bully or torment their wives will be prosecuted for domestic violence under new plans unveiled by Nick Clegg.
A “fixation” with giving the poor money to lift them out of poverty is doing nothing to make them take responsibility for their lives, Iain Duncan Smith will warn.
Seventy organisations involved in the benefits system have raised concerns about a government overhaul.
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