Alison Garnham – Hackney Citizen

Pay all staff at least London Living Wage, urges Mayor of Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 2 November 2016 at 14:15

Do as they do: Philip Glanville with Councillor Carole Williams highlighting the wage issue

Philip Glanville has called on all businesses in the borough to follow his council’s lead

New benefits cap will ‘damage life chances of over 3,000 Hackney children’

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 1 September 2016 at 15:22

Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action group, Alison Garnham

Borough will be one of the worst affected areas in the UK, according to new government figures

Benefits claimants face spike in ‘aggressive and intimidating’ bailiffs over unpaid council tax

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 15 August 2016 at 17:23

Credit cards HCLC

New figures show council using greater number of enforcement agents to recover debt from residents already on council tax support

Scrapping poverty targets will make children ‘invisible’, charity warns

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 14 December 2015 at 14:22

Department for Work and Pensions plans to stop measuring child hardship in favour of measures tackling ‘root causes’