Big thanks to @jrf-uk.bsky.social for their analysis www.jrf.org.uk/news/budget-...

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Chancellor confirming that self-employed fathers and partners getting paid parental leave. Really good move to ensure both parents can spend time with the family in those crucial early weeks.

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V quick reflection on the budget: Additional funding for homelessness, without uprating LHA, is like bailing out the bathtub without turning off the taps. It's just hard to take the commitment to ending rough sleeping seriously when they're not tackling a significant driver of homelessness??

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"Today's Budget has made a good start by laying out short-term measures designed to give breathing space and signalling more will be needed in future." Read our full response here ⤵️ www.ippr.org/media-office...

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"Hope starts with a home" Chancellor said. He's right. But hope dies if you can't pay the rent. More social homes take years to build. Today government choose not to tackle the single biggest reason there are so many families in temporary homes - the LHA freeze.

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