Employers are legally obliged to provide reasonable adjustments for employees with a disability that meets legal criteria, including medium to long-term mental health conditions. Many of the people who call…
Kate Bradley and Leyya Kitmitto outline the problems with the category ‘fraud and error’, and highlight four cases that disturb the usual narratives about benefit fraud. Recently, the Department for…
On Tuesday 30 November, Greater Manchester Law Centre gave expert evidence on Long Covid, employment and welfare rights to an All-Party Parliamentary Group, the APPG on Coronavirus. We gave evidence…
On 23 November at 6pm, GMLC conducted its first ever hybrid Annual General Meeting, with over 55 attendees spread across the event in person and online. We set up a…
Above: graphs from the IPPR report ‘No Longer Managing’, showing increases in the likelihood of poverty in working households and the dramatic rise in housing costs for poor households since…
GMLC campaign volunteer Callum Ward summarises The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s recent research into possession proceedings, highlighting how the use of mandatory grounds is making people homeless without a chance…
Campaign volunteer Hoejong Jeong summarises the new Westminster Commission review of legal aid, and asks: whilst it is a welcome reminder of the problems we face, does this report tell…
We interview our service volunteer Ajibike Babalola about her work with GMLC, her experiences working for the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria and the state of access to justice in…
GMLC Director Jason Tetley writes on the urgent need to stop the Universal Credit cut next week. On Tuesday 6 October, the Universal Credit uplift ends, plunging an additional half…
Have your say! The government is doing a consultation on making life saving drug that reverses effects of heroin overdose available to homelessness services. The consultation closes today, but you…