Older people who voted for Brexit have “comprehensively shafted the young”, Sir Vince Cable has said. Writing in the Mail on Sunday, the Lib Dem leader accused the over-65s of being “self-declared martyrs” who claim leaving the EU is worth the cost. “The martyrdom of the old comes cheap,” he said, as fewer have jobs to lose and living standards are protected by the triple lock on pensions. “For the Brexit martyrs, paradise beckons,” he added. Quoting statistics
Police say that children as young as 13 are becoming money mules. They are enticed by the offer of receiving cash and often do not realise that what they are doing is an offence Thousands of young children and teenagers are being paid by criminals to hide or launder stolen money in their bank accounts, The Times has learnt. Parents are being asked to monitor their children’s transactions after the number of youths used as “money mules” by fraudsters and gangsters nearly
Research from anti-bullying charity Ditch the Label suggests social media is making youngsters more anxious. Forty per cent said they felt bad if nobody liked their selfies and 35% said their confidence was directly linked to the number of followers they had. Instagram was highlighted as having become the vehicle most used for mean comments. Seven per cent of young social network users said they had been bullied on the Facebook-owned photo app. That compared to a figure of 6%
Young families were particularly hard hit by an “abrupt” slowdown in living standards in the year before the general election, a think tank says. The Resolution Foundation found that average income growth halved to 0.7% during that period compared with the previous year. Those aged 25-34 were worst hit, it said, with their average incomes no higher than they were in 2002-03. The Treasury said it was taking “concrete steps” to help families. The Resolution Foundation analyses living standards, and says its
Ministers do not know how many hundreds of thousands of children in England are living risky or vulnerable lives, says children’s commissioner Anne Longfield. England’s children’s champion has tried to calculate the total in a report, in the absence of overall official data. She found some 670,000 children live in high risk family situations, thousands with parents in addiction treatment. Children’s minister Robert Goodwill said support for vulnerable children was being given across government. But he acknowledged there was more to do. Ms Longfield highlighted
