Duncan ForbesChief Executive

Bron Afon Community Housing

Which “A” Are You?

• Angst?

• Anger?

• Action?

Predictions and Surveys

• Universal Credit: Return of “male bread winners”.

• Relationships: Loss of control.

• Weaker work incentives for two wage households second earner.

• Women the “shock absorbers” of family poverty.

Predictions and Surveys

• 11.1 billion tax and benefit savings out of 14.9 billion affect women.

• 35,000 extra people in Wales used Food Banks last year.

• 4.6 million women worse off because of Child Tax Credit cuts (2.5 million of them working mothers).

Predictions and Surveys

• Net Mums survey:

– 1 in 5 mums missing meals so children can eat.

– 16% parents treated for stress due to cash problems.

– 50% reported “living on the edge”.

– 25% no savings.

Predictions and surveys

• Child poverty predicted to increase by 400,000 by 2015-16.

• “Provocative rhetoric”

2013

• Bedroom Tax: April

• Benefit Cap: July

• Sanctions: Now

Now

• One suicide.

• Threats of suicide.

• Stress and tears.

• Huge anxiety and stress

Today. Which A are you?

• Angst?

• Anger?

• Action?