child trust funds Articles

It’s time to talk assets Labour suffers, and, more importantly, the public suffer, when its welfare policy in power lacks clear defining strategic goals. For the Labour party these should normally be: to narrow inequality, to eliminate poverty, and to provide both a...

‘It is unfair for benefits to rise at a faster rate than wages’ – so said the work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, ahead of the Commons vote on capping welfare benefits. The need, he confidently asserted, was based on the fact that jobless benefits have...

One of the first ‘achievements’ of the coalition government was the abolition of the child trust fund. This move not only removed one of the first universal asset-based policies to develop globally, but also showed a pernicious side of a government willing to remove...