A leading disability charity has warned it may be forced to stop running dozens of services as a result of Rachel Reeves’s tax hikes in her autumn Budget.
Mencap said it could be forced to stop providing at least 60 of its services as a result of the “charity tax”, the rise in national insurance paid by employers.
Ministers have spared the NHS and the public sector from the tax rise but refused to extend the exemption to charities. The warning comes just days after the chief executive of EveryYouth, a network of 12 youth homelessness charities, wrote to the deputy prime minister Angela Rayner to warn of hundreds of possible job losses within the network.
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Absurd image that sums up Fifa's 'tinpot dictatorship'
Miguel Delaney explains how the Gianni Infantino-led endeavour to hand Saudi Arabia the 2034 World Cup finals perfectly encapsulated the depths to which football has sunk
Liverpool spoilt for choice in battle to look after No 1
The big screen in the corner of the quaint Estadi Montilivi displayed some pre-match entertainment.
City slump to defeat and Champions League peril
It amounts to miserable seven for Pep Guardiola.
Sublime Saka scores brace as Gunners boss Monaco
Bukayo Saka continues to show the way, as well as new levels. Arsenal have recently been a team in need of a bit of stability and sense of comfort, and this 3-0 win over AS Monaco duly offered them a straight line into the Champions League last 16.
Boots owner in negotiations with US private equity firm
Walgreens, the US-based owner of Boots, is in talks to sell itself to a private equity company, casting uncertainty over the future of the venerable high street chain.
Ukrainian women pulled alive from rubble seven hours after Russian strike
Rescue crews working through the night have pulled two Ukrainian women from the rubble more than seven hours after a Russian missile struck a private medical clinic in southern Zaporizhzhia city, killing six people and injuring 22 others, Ukraine’s emergency services said.
Putin helped Assad escape Syria via Russian airbase
Russian intelligence agents persuaded Bashar al-Assad to flee Syria for Moscow, having become convinced that he would lose against the insurgents rapidly advancing on Damascus, sources have said.
Syrians vow to rebuild their town after Assad's brutality
Bel Trew in Jobar, north of Damascus, meets residents returning home for the first time in more than a decade
British teenager jailed in Dubai over holiday romance
A British teenager has been jailed in Dubai for having sex with a 17-year-old girl while the pair were on holiday.
NHS patient awarded £70k after drug made him gamble
The NHS has paid out tens of thousands to a man who developed an “uncontrollable” gambling problem after he was given a common Parkinson’s drug, The Independent can reveal.
