Liverpool Council bosses are to go to the United Nations to make their case that the government could be breaking international rules on keeping people out of poverty. The authority believes the coalition – through its controversial policies such as the bedroom tax and welfare reform – could be in breach of the UN economic and social rights convention that sets out minimum standards of access to food, clothing and housing. At Wednesday night’s meeting of the full council, Labour members from all parts of the city spoke of the evidence they had gathered of people in Liverpool who were being forced into degrading poverty because they were being denied access to benefits they desperately needed – ending up having to resort to what they said was effectively “begging” for food at food banks. The chamber heard stories of people stripped of their dole money for up to 16 weeks because they had been late for interviews or had failed to meet the criteria of the government’s Welfare to Work programme. Full article below liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-council-report-government-united-6521318 DA
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:01:42 +0000
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