Carl Walker

Jan 15, 2025 | cost-ofliving.net | Simon Carter |Carl Walker

“I felt very worried going in. I thought, do I need to give false details in case they actually report me and say, ‘This woman can’t afford pasta, can you take her son away.’ I was terrified.”“It’s not easy to ask for help… and then when you do, you’re always worrying in the queue: Is somebody going to drive past that you know from the work? Is somebody going to phone my daughter and say, I’ve seen your mum at the food bank queue?

Jul 17, 2024 | vailwilliams.com | Carl Walker

Freehold Residential Development Millway Close, Oxford Offers in excess of £400,000 Freehold Residential Development Millway Close, Oxford

May 1, 2024 | cost-ofliving.net | Carl Walker

Whilst it may be some way from being the most glamorous debate in political economy, the issue of tooth decay is instructive of a larger systemic problem in the relationship between pre-general election party policy and the future of the NHS. This is because tooth decay is now the biggest primary cause of NHS hospital admissions for children in England aged between five and 17, with 40% of children no longer having access to regular dental appointments.

Sep 13, 2023 | cost-ofliving.net | Carl Walker

The two child benefit cap affects an estimated 1.5 million children across the country. Recent research suggests that as many as one in four children in some of England and Wales’s poorest constituencies are in families left at least £3,000 poorer by the policy.

Apr 20, 2023 | cost-ofliving.net | Carl Walker

The latest figures around cost of living are, of course, obscene. Inflation is due to peak at 13% in October 2022, the highest annual rate since 1982. From June 2021 to June 2022 domestic gas prices increased by 95% and energy prices will increase by a further 80% in October 2022 (an average bill of £3,549).In the UK, we now expect low-income households to have to spend a larger proportion of their income on energy and food, with annual food price inflation of around 11% in 2022, peaking at 15%.