Forum Brief: Equality commission
Policy Consultation 15 May 2002
The government is to set up a one-stop-shop equality watchdog to police burgeoning anti-discrimination laws.
Forum Brief: IT training for older people
Policy Consultation 9 May 2002
Age Concern, Barclays and UK online have today launched their "Computer Explorer" buses - a mobile IT initiative for older people in the UK.
Forum Brief: Discrimination
Policy Consultation 30 April 2002
The public and voluntary sectors are being urged to recognise the needs of older lesbians and gay men as the UK population ages.
Forum Brief: Pensions
Policy Consultation 29 April 2002
Early retirement or redundancy can sharply increase the likelihood that men in their 50s will spend their old age in poverty, according to new research.
Forum Brief: Child poverty consultation
Policy Consultation 19 April 2002
The government is to seek the views of poverty experts on how to build on current indicators to measure child poverty.
Forum Brief: Milburn announcement
Policy Consultation 19 April 2002
Alan Milburn has promised improvements in the NHS before the next general election.
Forum Brief: Community Fund strategic plan
Policy Consultation 18 April 2002
The Community Fund has launched its new strategic plan for 2002 to 2007, which outlines major changes to the way charities and community groups will be funded.
Forum Brief: Pensioners' Budget response
Policy Consultation 17 April 2002
Elderly taxpayers will be able to set the first £6,610 of their income against tax, Gordon Brown has announced.
Forum Brief: Health sector Budget response
Policy Consultation 17 April 2002
Gordon Brown has announced a rapid increase in NHS spending, broadly in line with the conclusions of Derek Wanless in his review of future health spending needs.
Forum Brief: McFall call on pensions
Policy Consultation 15 April 2002
An influential Labour MP is urging the chancellor to give more help to pensioners in Wednesday's Budget.
Forum Brief: Age discrimination
Policy Consultation 10 April 2002
Today Ian McCartney set out the Government's commitment to beating ageism and eradicating older people stereotypes.
Forum Brief: Commons report on benefits
Policy Consultation 10 April 2002
Pensioners and disabled people often face delays in receiving their benefits due to blunders by the government agency responsible, an influential committee of MPs has found.
Forum Brief: Budget speculation
Policy Consultation 9 April 2002
The chancellor will this week put the finishing touches to a budget which is set to deliver the first "visible" tax increases since Labour came to office.
In Brief: NHS 'postcode lottery' risks patient blindness
News Article 28 November 2001
A group of eye charities claimed on Wednesday that the sight of some patients is being put at risk by a "postcode lottery" of NHS treatment.
Charity hits out at elderly care plans
News Article 26 September 2001
Changes to nursing care which come into force on October 1 have been described as "unworkable, unfair and unjust" by a leading charity.
