Commons select committee scrutinises Martin Thomas’s appointment after previous chair criticised over culture wars The charity regulator should stay as far as possible out of debates about “wokeness”, the government’s preferred candidate to head the wa…
Food banks warn of smaller parcels due to HGV supply shortages
Exclusive: declining stocks and expected higher demand for charity could see struggling families given less in their food parcelsFood banks have said they will have to shrink the size of the parcels they give to struggling families owing to declining s…
Ministers have no clear plan to tackle child poverty, say cross-party MPs
Committee calls for robust cross-departmental anti-poverty strategy to tackle growing problemMinisters have no clear plans to tackle rising child poverty, while a lack of focus and leadership has hindered efforts to reduce the numbers of youngpeople li…
Churchill Fellowship rejects criticism from Boris Johnson after website rebrand
Churchill’s grandson oversaw change that had almost no complaints until Daily Mail and Sun coverageThe Churchill Fellowship has rejected allegations by Boris Johnson that it has airbrushed out images of Britain’s wartime prime minister from its website…
Marcus Rashford urges government to keep £20 universal credit top-up
Footballer and poverty campaigner says ministers should focus on efforts to end the ‘child hunger pandemic’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe footballer Marcus Rashford has urged the government to end threats to social secu…
Founder of animal charity in Lincolnshire struck off by regulator
Sanctuary in Boston shut down a year after Tamara Lloyd was prosecuted over ‘appalling conditions’The founder of a £1m animal sanctuary has been struck off by the charities regulator, and the organisation she founded shut down, a year after she was pro…
Labour to pledge shake-up of universal credit as part of wider ‘new deal’
Shadow work and pensions secretary expected to propose taper rate reduction that will be first element of social security overhaulLabour will promise on Monday to overhaul the universal credit system by allowing low-income workers to earn more without …
Universal credit cut will come as shock for claimants, says Labour
Government accused of failing to effectively communicate £20 reduction with many families unaware of imminent cutLabour has accused the government of failing to prepare struggling low-income families for October’s £20-a-week cut in universal credit pay…
Barnado’s blogpost on white privilege did not breach charity laws
Charities regulator says post deemed ‘ideological dogma’ by Tory MPs was in line with the Barnado’s missionBarnardo’s did not breach charity laws when it published a blogpost on its website discussing racial inequality and white privilege, inadvertentl…