Cutswatch - National

General Campaigns

False Economy contains information about cuts by region and sector, links to campaigns and lots of other information. There is a guide to challenging the cuts in court at: http://falseeconomy.org.uk/blog/3-ways-to-challenge-the-cuts-in-court.

UK Uncut has organised direct action and other campaigns against a range of cuts, and against the government’s proposals for changes to the NHS.

The Guardian Cuts Watch site can be searched by postcode and contains a whole series of inter-active maps that you can search for cuts to different sectors.

Education

The United for Education campaign brings together teaching unions and others with a concern about education cuts.

More information about the campaign to save education maintenance allowance http://emacampaign.org.uk/.

Welfare Reform

A group of anti-poverty, child rights, disability and other organisations have produced joint briefings on the impact of the welfare reform proposals here.

Gingerbread is campaigning against charges for collecting child maintenance.
 
Citizens Advice is campaigning for a fair and just welfare system.

The Hardest Hit Campaign organised jointly by the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) and the UK Disabled People’s Council is campaigning against cuts to disability benefits.

Age UK is campaigning on the increase in the state pension age for women.

Other Campaigns

Violence against women:

Women’s Aid has a campaign to Save Survivors Services.
 
The Women’s Resource Centre and Rape Crisis have been campaigning on the crisis in funding for rape crisis services.

Legal Aid:

The Justice for All Campaign brings together a wide range of groups and individuals to campaign against cuts to Legal Aid.

Campaigns for children’s and youth services:

Shout Out for Sure Start to save Sure Start Centres.

The Choose Youth Campaign campaigns on youth services.

Housing:

Shelter is running a campaign on ‘saving the housing safety net’.

Citizen’s Advice Bureau is running a campaign against proposed housing benefit cuts.