MPs said the wait for the first payment was one of the ‘deep, structural problems’ with Universal Credit and called for it to be scrapped By Serina Sandhu The Government must end the five-week wait for Universal Credit as it is often the reason claimants say they are forced into “survival sex”, MPs have said. The […]
Response to the Report from the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee Inquiry into Universal Credit and “survival sex” Laura Watson from the English Collective of Prostitutes, which gave evidence to the Committee says: “The fury against Universal Credit is growing. Women and children are its first targets and single mothers have been hit particularly hard losing […]
Families struggling to proviude meals during summer holidays By Helen Chapman CAMPAIGNERS at a food bank staged a demonstration as they warned that families are struggling to feed their children during the school holidays. Placards were held up in Lancing Street, Euston, on Thursday, with organisers hoping that their protest would highlight how people need […]
‘It was sex work or starvation’: How poverty is forcing women to perform for men on webcams ‘Since I started camming, I haven’t signed on. The flexibility changed my life. It allowed me to work and earn an income from home. I paid for my masters in cash up front’ Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent @mayaoppenheim […]
The work and pensions committee holds a parliamentary hearing on evidence that welfare reforms are linked to “survival sex”.By Lucia Binding, news reporterWomen are being “forced into selling sex” because they have few other options and live in fear of the state, an MP has warned.Steve McCabe’s comments come after the work and pensions committee […]
Benefits reform forcing women to sell sex for cash, food or shelter, MPs’ committee toldWomen are increasingly forced to take up sex work to get money for food and rent after becoming desperate over financial hardship caused by universal credit, an MPs’ committee has heard.A series of witnesses from specialist charities that work with women involved […]
English Collective of Prostitutes to give evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee Inquiry on Survival Sex, 22 May 2019 The 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 […]
The UN Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights reports on UN member states’ ‘initiatives taken to promote and protect the rights of those living in extreme poverty’. The ECP’s submission to the Rapporteur points to the way austerity cuts have targeted women, with special note of single mothers, women who are carers, and EU […]
Niki Adams We have been shouting from the rooftops for years that women are being pushed into prostitution by rising poverty The 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 […]
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 […]