Lower wages for young people is “out-and-out discrimination”

The Government has accepted the LPC's recommendations for future minimum wage rates. The rates below will apply from 1 April 2019. Responding to today’s Low Pay Commission report on wages, Young Women’s Trust chief executive Dr Carole Easton OBE said:“The Government should go further than adopting the Low Pay Commission’s ...

Research shows Brits don’t know their ash from their elder

It’s official ... Brits are clueless about trees - with a third unable to tell their ash from their elder, a study found. Researchers who polled 2,000 UK adults found six in 10 can’t identify a maple leaf or recognise the leaves of an oak tree. A quarter have no ...

If you watch one ad this Christmas, make it this one

A child poverty charity has challenged the traditional festive ad by telling a ‘real’ Christmas story that most people will be unaware of. With 835,000 workers in London being paid below the living wage and working women making up a disproportionate number of those it is children living in poverty ...

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