Advocates speak out as more Aboriginal children are taken into care
By Stephanie Boltje

Advocates call for urgent action to implement a commissioner for young people in New South Wales, with First Nations children 12 times more likely to be in out-of-home care.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-14/advocates-call-for-action-for-aboriginal-children-in-care/104599528

#IndigenousAboriginalandTorresStraitIslander #FamilyandRelationships #Children #Teenagers #Family #Welfare #ChildHealthandBehaviour #Government #StephanieBoltje

"Much like when George Osborne aimed to cut the #disability benefits bill by a fifth, “#welfare reform” based on arbitrary cost-cutting says the quiet part out loud: #benefits won’t be awarded based on who needs them – just on what they cost."

#UKpolitics #Labour

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/05/tax-and-spend-budget-disabled-people-austerity

While the budget offered a boost to the minimum wage & a smaller rise in universal credit levels (as well as some shifts in UC sanctions), the model for dealing with workplace-related economic inequality remains broadly in place.... which, perhaps at this stage in a new Parliament is understandable, even if actually its a system that really doesn't work well for anyone, other than the low-wage firms govt. policy is effectively subsidising.

#welfare #inequality

https://northwestbylines.co.uk/business/how-uk-policy-on-income-inequality-is-failing-low-paid-workers/