Submission to Work and Pensions Committee from the English Collective of Prostitutes, April 2019The ECP is a self-help organisation of sex workers, working both on the street and in premises, with a national network throughout the UK. Since 1975, we have campaigned for the decriminalisation of prostitution, for sex workers’ rights and safety, and for […]
Niki AdamsWe have been shouting from the rooftops for years that women are being pushed into prostitution by rising povertyThe recently announced inquiry by the Work and Pensions Committee into the link between Universal Credit and ‘survival sex’ is welcome. We have been shouting from the rooftops for years that more women, particularly mothers, are being pushed […]
Investigation in response to evidence that poverty forcing women into prostitutionPatrick Butler Social policy editorMPs are to launch an inquiry into “survival sex” – where benefit claimants impoverished by universal credit or sanctions have turned to prostitution to pay rent or feed their families.The Commons work and pensions select committee said the investigation was in response to evidence from […]
‘There are a number of people participating in survival sex so they can feed their families or prevent loan sharks with baseball bats coming round to enforce debts,’ says Frank FieldMaya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent @mayaoppenheimWomen may be turning to sex work as a means to survive due to changes to welfare policy and the rollout of universal credit, MPs have […]