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A testimony to our shared humanity: Baroness Lister reviews 'Tears of Gold'
Books & culture
By Baroness Lister
A testimony to our shared humanity: Baroness Lister reviews 'Tears of Gold'
Featuring moving and beautiful portraits of female survivors of conflict and sexual violence, Hannah Rose Thomas’ art imparts dignity, resistance and justice to her subjects
Labour must ditch two-child benefit cap
Political parties
By Baroness Lister
Labour must ditch two-child benefit cap
Dubbed “the worst ever social security policy” by an eminent social policy professor, the two-child limit has become front page news.
It’s vital we defeat the Illegal Migration Bill’s get-out clause – because isolationism will solve nothing
Home affairs
By Baroness Lister
It’s vital we defeat the Illegal Migration Bill’s get-out clause – because isolationism will solve nothing
The extreme consequences of new legislation are often obscured by the dry and wordy legalese that’s used to draft it.
A benefits increase is essential to ease the cost of living for low-income families
Economy
By Baroness Lister
A benefits increase is essential to ease the cost of living for low-income families
“There is quite simply nothing left to cut back on.”
Cutting universal credit uplift is emblematic of a failure to take child poverty seriously
Economy
By Baroness Lister
Cutting universal credit uplift is emblematic of a failure to take child poverty seriously
Despite protestations that reducing child poverty is a priority and despite all the talk of levelling up, there is no child poverty strategy worthy of the name.
An above-inflation benefits increase will help the most vulnerable with the cost of living
Communities
By Baroness Lister
An above-inflation benefits increase will help the most vulnerable with the cost of living

There is no excuse for a lack of understanding about the effects of DWP policy decisions, the benefits freeze has contributed to increased homelessness, child poverty, reliance on food banks and general suffering, writes Baroness Lister. 
Home Office must assess the negative impact 'no recourse to public funds' immigration rules are having on children
Communities
By Baroness Lister
Home Office must assess the negative impact 'no recourse to public funds' immigration rules are having on children

It is clear that the government are doing nothing to assess the impact of the no recourse to public funds (NRPF) policy on children, says Baroness Lister.
Government must end 'defensive state of denial' and tackle child poverty in the UK
Communities
By Baroness Lister
Government must end 'defensive state of denial' and tackle child poverty in the UK

The UN Rapporteur has held up a revealing mirror to British society, says Baroness Lister.
The benefit cap has a disproportionate impact on children, the government must end this misery
Communities
By Baroness Lister
The benefit cap has a disproportionate impact on children, the government must end this misery

Ahead of her Lord's question on the impact of the benefit cap on child and family wellbeing, Baroness Lister writes about the topic for PoliticsHome. 
Refugees left destitute due to bureaucratic incompetence
Political parties
By Baroness Lister
Refugees left destitute due to bureaucratic incompetence

Ahead of today's third reading of the Immigration Bill, Baroness Lister calls for the Home Office and DWP must work together to prevent refugees granted asylum from destitution due to ‘move-on’ issues.
Child poverty is being erased from the political agenda
Health
By Baroness Lister
Child poverty is being erased from the political agenda
Baroness Lister challenges the Government’s position that 'work is the best route out of poverty', saying child poverty within working families is on the rise