New magazine looks at aid cuts, the NI hike, an innovative funding scheme and much, much more
We seem to be heading into a new age of austerity – even as it feels like we never left the last one.
The UK Government is, as this is being written, preparing to launch a programme of cuts aimed at people on disability benefits, surely some of the most vulnerable people in the UK.
TFN has chronicled the impact of cuts and austerity down through the years – these accelerated terrifyingly during the Cameron/Osborne years, but it seems that they are here to stay, even with a Starmerite Labour government.
The old Animal Farm quote rises to the top of the mind: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
TFN will cover the impact of the cuts to benefits online and in future editions. But it’s different cuts we are focussing on this month – where Labour, yet again, has gone further than even the Tories: the cuts to the international aid budget.
You can read how the NGO sector has reacted and about the impacts they will have here.
A hike is as good as a cut to the charity sector when it comes to the impending employers’ National Insurance rise, as we have spoken to people working in care about its consequences; again, we will be chronicling this in future editions.
On a more positive note, we look at an innovative form of pooled funding in the capital which could point to way to similar initiatives, see how a community in Glasgow is fighting back as it demands basic services and take a moment to consider our brain health in an era of burnout.
You will find all of that and more in this month as well as TFN's usual line up of excellent columnists and features.
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