"Painting over murals for children at asylum centre cost #HomeOffice £1,550
FoI request reveals cost of work at #Manston centre in Kent, where cartoon murals meant to welcome children were painted over"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/08/painting-over-murals-for-children-at-asylum-centre-cost-home-office-1550

And #BenefitSanctions and the two child cap make it less likely that people will find work, not more. They give money saving as the justification for these things, but it's actually a punitive policy of deliberate cruelty.

#Refugees #AsylumSeekers #HostileEnvironment

Please add your name on this petition, benefit sanctions do not work they just push people into terrible poverty. @organisehq: #NoMoreSanctions https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-tell-the-uk-government-benefit-sanctions-don-t-work-704199d922fab4be?utm_campaign=KHvgH8lmh4&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share
#petition #uk #benefitsanctions #CostOfLivingCrises

So it turns out that sanctions are not just cruel and inhumane, they *actively slow people moving into work* which is the express justification for them. No wonder this shower wanted the report suppressed

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/06/benefit-sanctions-slow-peoples-progress-into-work-says-report-therese-coffey-suppressed?

#BenefitSanctions #PerfectlyNormalIsland

RT @BylinesEast@twitter.com

Charities have seen a rise in homelessness as people are evicted when their income dries up. If you’re being forced to move from one sofa to the next, it can be impossible to receive important mail.

-- Stephen McNair reports

#Poverty
#BenefitSanctions

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/government-sanctions-creating-poverty/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BylinesEast/status/1602611505232584708