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If you don’t like surprises, try listening to what people are telling you…
David Cameron has been ridiculed for his surprise that his local council is cutting services like children’s centres and libraries.…
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Force employers’ hand and it’s jobseekers who suffer
I’ve had some personal misgivings about the Living Wage. I’ve been guilty of thinking cynically about it but it’s based…
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Steps in the Right Direction but By Design?
The government may just have a cunning plan. I think they could afford to share it more widely. I think…
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We Don’t Need No (Financial) Education
If Quids in! ran a school, we wouldn’t talk about financial education at all. The kids don’t care about it and teachers…
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Digitally Disabled
Point 5 of Dying for Change, the pre-election paper we published, called on policy makers and service delivery agencies to check…
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Dying for Change – A People’s Manifesto
In researching electoral campaigning on the needs of people on low incomes for the Quids In Professional Network, I noticed…
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Remember, Remember, It’s a Privileged Agenda
It’s just possible the election belongs to the Tories, if they can keep hold of it. That’s not to say…
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If You Thought the Bedroom Tax was Bad…
Last August a coroner concluded that the threat of eviction or hardship through increased housing costs, on account of new…
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Let Them Eat Broadband
The ‘digital by default’ agenda threatens to make inequality worse, not better, unless it is rolled out at the right…
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Banking on the Wrong Stuff?
In January, the City of London staged a financial inclusion conference: Next Move Forward. Speakers included the Archbishop of Canterbury…