one woman play makes visible the female faces of...
Joanne,at the Soho Theatre, depicts five women at the frontline of overstretched public services...
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if you ve not been hit by tory cuts yet, your time...
Austerity has so far focused on marginalised people. But they are starting to hit services the whole...
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cuts to public health funding will cost the nhs...
We should be angry at the chancellor’s cynical plans to slash the funding that councils expend to...
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reform has ground down our schools and the nhs |...
Doctors,teachers and the police are ever more demoralised and society is sufferingWill Hutton’s...
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lord porter: councils are on the edge of collapse...
As Osborne’s spending review dawns,Gary Porter, the Tory chairman of the Local Government...
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life in david cameron s backyard is set to get...
Severely ill and disabled people in Oxfordshire say they are being asked to foot the bill for...
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public sector workers first to face cut in real...
Wages in sector will tumble by 2020 to levels final seen a decade ago,the Resolution Foundation...
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liverpool council faces stark choices as it looks...
In the next two years,Liverpool is likely to beget to cut statutory services. But setting an illegal...
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expect a winter of public service discontent |...
From flood defences to the closure of Scotland’s Forth Road bridge,the tough choices public bodies...
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work with nature to protect cash strapped uk...
Rethinking Parks project run by Nesta offers suggestions such as changing flowers from annuals to...
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going into legal aid work now is career suicide |...
Government cuts to legal aid means social welfare lawyers are a dying breed. So where will the next...
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the treasury shows little sign of strategic...
Even Tories criticise the Treasury’s ramshackle handling of the spending review and its inability...
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spending review osborne orders whitehall to draw...
Chancellor tells government departments to set out plans for further cuts by September,on top of...
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damage done by cuts and sanctions brings oxfam to...
The international aid charity hopes to tackle Welsh poverty head on and support victims of austerity...
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george osborne asks public sector workers for...
Chancellor invites workers to participate in survey,in reprise of 2010 exercise which generated...
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george osborne will spend more than ever. don t be...
The chancellor is not cutting the cost of the public sector – he just wants a different one. But...
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public health cuts undermine extra nhs funding,...
Letter to George Osborne signed by organisations including NHS Confederation and LGA says planned...
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spending review osborne orders 20bn savings over...
Chancellor tells government departments to set out plans for even more cuts by September,on top of...
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more than 500 childrens centres have closed in uk...
Collapse of services for young families under Conservatives laid bare in Commons answerCash-strapped...
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tax credit cuts will hit poorest regions hardest,...
General secretary Frances O’Grady calls on George Osborne to ditch his planned cuts at next...
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