Demos recommends issuing benefit cash on 'prepay' cards
Demos analysis of 'cashless' welfare payments fuels a necessary moral and political debate.
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'Welfare cash cards' are much more than a tool of state control
The debate about whether the state should control benefits should not mask the many positive aspects of prepaid, writes Claudia Wood in Society Guardian.
Radio 4 discusses Faithful Providers
Jonathan Birdwell argues that religous groups should be considered for a greater role in delivering public services, on Radio 4's Sunday programme.
Britons 'self-segregate' as white flight soars
Nicholas Hellen reports on the phenomenon of "white flight" in the Sunday Times.
How cities can be the engines of good growth
Duncan O'Leary talks to Andy Ford and Nick C Jones of PwC and Gerald Vernon-Jackson, leader of Portsmouth City Council, about Demos and PwC's report 'Good Growth for Cities'.
How can faith bodies provide welfare when their own cupboards are bare?
Andrew Brown supports the findings of Demos's Faithful Providers report, arguing that the level of funding to faith bodies is 'both shocking and clearly inadequate'.
Get religious groups on board with Work Programme
The Independent reports on the Faithful Providers report, which argues for the use of religous institutions in delivering public services.
Newsnight debates Romanian immigration
David Goodhart appears on Newsnight to discuss EU enlargement and Romanian immigration to the UK.
Welfare cuts: pick your battles
Claudia Wood argues that the loss of child benefit for higher earners is less important than the cuts in income for poor families heralded by tomorrow’s benefits uprating bill.
Child benefit cuts: "we're not in an ideal world"
On Radio 5 Live, Claudia Wood argues that whole family assessment of child benefit is impractical due to current UK tax law.
Demos: scrap Ofsted inspections to tackle ‘target-obsessed culture’ in schools
A new report by think-tank Demos proposes a fundamental shake-up of how schools and pupils are assessed in order to rescue an education system obsessed with targets and league tables.
Almost half of ethnic minority population now live in majority non-white areas
Analysis of the Census by the think-tank Demos reveals that almost half of ethnic minority residents in England and Wales now live in areas where white British people are in a minority.
Half of workers wrongly assume bosses would foot the bill for long-term sick leave
UK workers are risking their own financial security by failing to protect themselves adequately, in case they are forced to leave work by illness or injury, according to new research by the think-tank Demos.
Disabled people set to lose £28.3bn of support
Demos analysis reveals the full impact of the Government's changes to the welfare system on disabled people.
Hire social media chiefs to put ‘Twitter snooping’ on a legal footing, think-tank tells police
Police constabularies should install dedicated heads of social media to tackle crime and ensure responsible collection of online intelligence data, according to Demos’s Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM).
Demos: Reward healthy choices with fast-track NHS treatment
People who make healthier life choices should be prioritised for non-emergency hospital appointments, according to an independent think-tank.
Ethnic minorities feel more empowered than white Britons, finds study
White British people feel significantly more disenfranchised by modern politics than minority groups, according to an analysis of a major government survey of community life in Britain by the think-tank Demos.
‘In broadband we trust’ say supporters of Italy’s Beppe Grillo
A pioneering survey of Beppe Grillo’s populist Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) reveals astonishing levels of distrust in politics, business and the media among its online supporters.
Demos: 120,000 pensioners a year to miss out on social care relief if Government ditches Dilnot cap proposal
Demos analysis reveals an extra 120,000 elderly people a year will receive no relief on their social care costs if the government forego Dilnot recommendations and adopt a £75k cap
Use benefits to change behaviour, argues Demos
New report shows how prepaid cards could offer financial inclusion to Britain’s 2 million unbanked and nurture a generation of savers.