Alex Firth
@alexwfirth.bsky.social
Advocacy & Comms at Just Fair / economic, social and cultural rights are human rights / build more homes.
Work on the UK, based in Mexico City.
www.justfair.org.uk
Work on the UK, based in Mexico City.
www.justfair.org.uk
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Alex Firth
@alexwfirth.bsky.social
· Oct 16
Why is Britain letting 170,000 children grow up without a home?
New data out today shows the number of children classed as homeless is the highest since records began. Alex Firth writes of a nation’s shame
www.independent.co.uk
172,000 children are growing up without a home in England.
We’ve normalised a level of child homelessness that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.
I wrote in @independentvoices.bsky.social about why a right to housing matters now more than ever 👇
www.independent.co.uk/voices/homel...
We’ve normalised a level of child homelessness that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.
I wrote in @independentvoices.bsky.social about why a right to housing matters now more than ever 👇
www.independent.co.uk/voices/homel...
172,000 children in England are growing up in temporary accommodation – overcrowded, unsafe and unstable.
The Child Poverty Strategy is welcome, but without a rights-based approach to housing, these children remain at the mercy of politics, not protected by law.
labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...
The Child Poverty Strategy is welcome, but without a rights-based approach to housing, these children remain at the mercy of politics, not protected by law.
labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...
'To last, the child poverty strategy must be grounded in human rights' - LabourList
The UK’s Child Poverty Strategy is a major step forward, but without a rights-based framework its gains risk reversal.
labourlist.org
January 16, 2026 at 3:39 AM
172,000 children in England are growing up in temporary accommodation – overcrowded, unsafe and unstable.
The Child Poverty Strategy is welcome, but without a rights-based approach to housing, these children remain at the mercy of politics, not protected by law.
labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...
The Child Poverty Strategy is welcome, but without a rights-based approach to housing, these children remain at the mercy of politics, not protected by law.
labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...
Children’s rights should never depend on market conditions.
Scrapping the two-child limit matters, but without a rights-based framework, child poverty policy remains fragile.
My new op-ed in @labourlist.bsky.social makes the case
🔗 labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...
Scrapping the two-child limit matters, but without a rights-based framework, child poverty policy remains fragile.
My new op-ed in @labourlist.bsky.social makes the case
🔗 labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...
'To last, the child poverty strategy must be grounded in human rights' - LabourList
The UK’s Child Poverty Strategy is a major step forward, but without a rights-based framework its gains risk reversal.
labourlist.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Children’s rights should never depend on market conditions.
Scrapping the two-child limit matters, but without a rights-based framework, child poverty policy remains fragile.
My new op-ed in @labourlist.bsky.social makes the case
🔗 labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...
Scrapping the two-child limit matters, but without a rights-based framework, child poverty policy remains fragile.
My new op-ed in @labourlist.bsky.social makes the case
🔗 labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...
Reposted by Alex Firth
🗞️ Child poverty is back in the headlines.
Our new LabourList op-ed argues that tackling it for good means more than policy fixes, it requires a rights-based framework that can’t be rolled back.
Our advocacy and comms officer @alexwfirth.bsky.social writes
🔗 labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...
Our new LabourList op-ed argues that tackling it for good means more than policy fixes, it requires a rights-based framework that can’t be rolled back.
Our advocacy and comms officer @alexwfirth.bsky.social writes
🔗 labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...
'To last, the child poverty strategy must be grounded in human rights' - LabourList
The UK’s Child Poverty Strategy is a major step forward, but without a rights-based framework its gains risk reversal.
labourlist.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
🗞️ Child poverty is back in the headlines.
Our new LabourList op-ed argues that tackling it for good means more than policy fixes, it requires a rights-based framework that can’t be rolled back.
Our advocacy and comms officer @alexwfirth.bsky.social writes
🔗 labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...
Our new LabourList op-ed argues that tackling it for good means more than policy fixes, it requires a rights-based framework that can’t be rolled back.
Our advocacy and comms officer @alexwfirth.bsky.social writes
🔗 labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...
Reposted by Alex Firth
💼 The Autumn Budget aimed for a “fairer Britain,” but does it meet our human rights obligations?
Wins like removing the two-child limit are outweighed by missed opportunities on housing & benefits. Growth-focused policy risks deepening inequality, rights must come first.
Wins like removing the two-child limit are outweighed by missed opportunities on housing & benefits. Growth-focused policy risks deepening inequality, rights must come first.
A fairer Britain? What the Autumn Budget means for our rights | Just Fair
The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said that her Autumn Budget was one based on ‘the right choices for a fairer, stronger, and more secure Britain.’ It is a Budget which she says, ‘will bring down inflation and provide immediate relief for families’ and is based on ‘fair taxes, strong public services and a stable economy.’ […]
justfair.org.uk
January 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
💼 The Autumn Budget aimed for a “fairer Britain,” but does it meet our human rights obligations?
Wins like removing the two-child limit are outweighed by missed opportunities on housing & benefits. Growth-focused policy risks deepening inequality, rights must come first.
Wins like removing the two-child limit are outweighed by missed opportunities on housing & benefits. Growth-focused policy risks deepening inequality, rights must come first.
Reposted by Alex Firth
New Shelter research shows the housing emergency is damaging children’s education.
Over half of teachers work in a school where children have been homeless in the past year and 175,025 children now live in temporary accommodation.
This must change. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Over half of teachers work in a school where children have been homeless in the past year and 175,025 children now live in temporary accommodation.
This must change. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
More than half of teachers are working with pupils who are homeless
‘Years without a stable home has made it hard for him to focus on school’
www.independent.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
New Shelter research shows the housing emergency is damaging children’s education.
Over half of teachers work in a school where children have been homeless in the past year and 175,025 children now live in temporary accommodation.
This must change. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Over half of teachers work in a school where children have been homeless in the past year and 175,025 children now live in temporary accommodation.
This must change. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Reposted by Alex Firth
The Chancellor says the Autumn Budget makes “the right choices for a fairer, stronger and more secure Britain.” Measures to cut everyday costs are welcome, but how does it stack up against the UK’s human rights obligations?
Read our Budget analysis 👇
justfair.org.uk/a-fairer-bri...
Read our Budget analysis 👇
justfair.org.uk/a-fairer-bri...
A fairer Britain? What the Autumn Budget means for our rights | Just Fair
The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said that her Autumn Budget was one based on ‘the right choices for a fairer, stronger, and more secure Britain.’ It is a Budget which she says, ‘will bring down inf...
justfair.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Chancellor says the Autumn Budget makes “the right choices for a fairer, stronger and more secure Britain.” Measures to cut everyday costs are welcome, but how does it stack up against the UK’s human rights obligations?
Read our Budget analysis 👇
justfair.org.uk/a-fairer-bri...
Read our Budget analysis 👇
justfair.org.uk/a-fairer-bri...
Reposted by Alex Firth
It is great to hear @sianberry.bsky.social MP calling for the enactment of the socioeconomic duty. The UK Government have said they will, but they are now dragging their feet.
It's time to unlock this vital tool for tackling inequality at a local level.
It's time to unlock this vital tool for tackling inequality at a local level.
December 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It is great to hear @sianberry.bsky.social MP calling for the enactment of the socioeconomic duty. The UK Government have said they will, but they are now dragging their feet.
It's time to unlock this vital tool for tackling inequality at a local level.
It's time to unlock this vital tool for tackling inequality at a local level.
Reposted by Alex Firth
"A legal right to a quality home in a healthy environment may not sound like a lot to ask in the sixth richest country in the world, but it is a million miles from the lived reality of...our constituents."
Great to hear Neil Duncan-Jordan MP calling for economic, social and cultural rights in law.
Great to hear Neil Duncan-Jordan MP calling for economic, social and cultural rights in law.
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"A legal right to a quality home in a healthy environment may not sound like a lot to ask in the sixth richest country in the world, but it is a million miles from the lived reality of...our constituents."
Great to hear Neil Duncan-Jordan MP calling for economic, social and cultural rights in law.
Great to hear Neil Duncan-Jordan MP calling for economic, social and cultural rights in law.
Reposted by Alex Firth
Cheering the two child limit ending isn’t patting Starmer’s Labour on the back or ignoring his record. It’s acknowledging 8 years of hard campaigning and ridding the country of a cruel, toxic policy. Half a million children won’t be hungry anymore. Celebrate today. Tomorrow, pick the next fight.
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Cheering the two child limit ending isn’t patting Starmer’s Labour on the back or ignoring his record. It’s acknowledging 8 years of hard campaigning and ridding the country of a cruel, toxic policy. Half a million children won’t be hungry anymore. Celebrate today. Tomorrow, pick the next fight.
Reposted by Alex Firth
🎉Child poverty is at a record high, so the decision to end the two child limit is crucial
Poverty holds children back, with consequences for all of us. Every child should have a good start in life
This measure alone lifts 450,000 out of poverty & lessens severity for many more
Poverty holds children back, with consequences for all of us. Every child should have a good start in life
This measure alone lifts 450,000 out of poverty & lessens severity for many more
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🎉Child poverty is at a record high, so the decision to end the two child limit is crucial
Poverty holds children back, with consequences for all of us. Every child should have a good start in life
This measure alone lifts 450,000 out of poverty & lessens severity for many more
Poverty holds children back, with consequences for all of us. Every child should have a good start in life
This measure alone lifts 450,000 out of poverty & lessens severity for many more
Reposted by Alex Firth
Read this quote from our Director Jess McQuail 👇
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Read this quote from our Director Jess McQuail 👇
Reposted by Alex Firth
🧒🧒 Just Fair welcomes the end of the cruel two-child limit - a crucial step toward fairness we have long called for.
No child’s rights to food, housing or a decent life should ever be capped by policy. Now the UK must protect these rights in law.
justfair.org.uk/statement-on...
No child’s rights to food, housing or a decent life should ever be capped by policy. Now the UK must protect these rights in law.
justfair.org.uk/statement-on...
Statement on the lifting of the two-child limit | Just Fair
Just Fair welcomes the UK Government’s decision to lift the two-child limit. This long-overdue step could make a real difference in tackling child poverty and restoring fairness to the social security...
justfair.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🧒🧒 Just Fair welcomes the end of the cruel two-child limit - a crucial step toward fairness we have long called for.
No child’s rights to food, housing or a decent life should ever be capped by policy. Now the UK must protect these rights in law.
justfair.org.uk/statement-on...
No child’s rights to food, housing or a decent life should ever be capped by policy. Now the UK must protect these rights in law.
justfair.org.uk/statement-on...
Reposted by Alex Firth
Scrapping the two-child limit is a great example of how a relentless campaign refused to take no for an answer - and as a result 450,000 children will be lifted out of poverty.
Huge congratulations to everyone in the UK anti-poverty sector who never gave up.
Huge congratulations to everyone in the UK anti-poverty sector who never gave up.
Scrapping the two-child limit will be transformational for children.
This is a much-needed fresh start in our country’s efforts to eradicate child poverty and while there is more to do it gives us strong foundations to build on.
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This is a much-needed fresh start in our country’s efforts to eradicate child poverty and while there is more to do it gives us strong foundations to build on.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Scrapping the two-child limit is a great example of how a relentless campaign refused to take no for an answer - and as a result 450,000 children will be lifted out of poverty.
Huge congratulations to everyone in the UK anti-poverty sector who never gave up.
Huge congratulations to everyone in the UK anti-poverty sector who never gave up.
Reposted by Alex Firth
The UK government’s decision in today's Budget to end the cruel "two-child limit” social security policy is welcome and long-overdue. It forced growing numbers of children and families into poverty and undermined their rights.
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The UK government’s decision in today's Budget to end the cruel "two-child limit” social security policy is welcome and long-overdue. It forced growing numbers of children and families into poverty and undermined their rights.
The Greens care about issues like poor quality housing, and they care about human rights, so this seems like a perfect fit.
Would the Green Party support introducing housing as a human right into UK law? @elliechowns.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social
Would the Green Party support introducing housing as a human right into UK law? @elliechowns.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social
@elliechowns.bsky.social is right to raise the issue of the Warm Homes Plan.
Habitability is a key component of the right to adequate housing. Housing must be habitable and protect inhabitants from cold, damp, heat, rain & wind.
We need the right to housing recognised in UK law.
Habitability is a key component of the right to adequate housing. Housing must be habitable and protect inhabitants from cold, damp, heat, rain & wind.
We need the right to housing recognised in UK law.
Every day, millions of households wake up asking a brutal question: how will I keep my home warm this winter?
The Warm Homes Plan is a real opportunity for the govt to protect vulnerable households from the cold - but only if they avoid repeating past mistakes.
The Warm Homes Plan is a real opportunity for the govt to protect vulnerable households from the cold - but only if they avoid repeating past mistakes.
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Greens care about issues like poor quality housing, and they care about human rights, so this seems like a perfect fit.
Would the Green Party support introducing housing as a human right into UK law? @elliechowns.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social
Would the Green Party support introducing housing as a human right into UK law? @elliechowns.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social
These policies do not make the UK safer, they make it smaller, meaner and less committed to the equal dignity of all people.
Removing rights from the most vulnerable is state sanctioned cruelty.
Removing rights from the most vulnerable is state sanctioned cruelty.
November 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
These policies do not make the UK safer, they make it smaller, meaner and less committed to the equal dignity of all people.
Removing rights from the most vulnerable is state sanctioned cruelty.
Removing rights from the most vulnerable is state sanctioned cruelty.
You could earn $1 million every day since humans invented writing, and you’d still be poorer than the world’s first trillionaire.
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
You could earn $1 million every day since humans invented writing, and you’d still be poorer than the world’s first trillionaire.
Reposted by Alex Firth
❗️3.8 MILLION children are facing hunger in the UK.
And the biggest driver? The two-child benefit cap.
This cruel policy restricts support for families on a low income to their first 2 kids.
And the biggest driver? The two-child benefit cap.
This cruel policy restricts support for families on a low income to their first 2 kids.
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
❗️3.8 MILLION children are facing hunger in the UK.
And the biggest driver? The two-child benefit cap.
This cruel policy restricts support for families on a low income to their first 2 kids.
And the biggest driver? The two-child benefit cap.
This cruel policy restricts support for families on a low income to their first 2 kids.
Reposted by Alex Firth
Reposted by Alex Firth
🔥 As poverty and inequality rises, far-right narratives are taking hold in the UK.
We contributed to this new UN report on far-right populism and the future of social protection.
Our blog covers how UK policy failures are fuelling exclusion, and how we are pushing back.
We contributed to this new UN report on far-right populism and the future of social protection.
Our blog covers how UK policy failures are fuelling exclusion, and how we are pushing back.
Poverty, populism and policy failure: why the UK needs a rights-based reset | Just Fair
The UK’s retreat from economic, social and cultural rights protection and promotion is not only deepening poverty and inequality but also creating fertile ground for far-right populism to thrive. As the UK Government sidelines international obligations, we are quickening down a dangerous path. A warning ignored: the UN’s call for action In March 2025, the […]
justfair.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🔥 As poverty and inequality rises, far-right narratives are taking hold in the UK.
We contributed to this new UN report on far-right populism and the future of social protection.
Our blog covers how UK policy failures are fuelling exclusion, and how we are pushing back.
We contributed to this new UN report on far-right populism and the future of social protection.
Our blog covers how UK policy failures are fuelling exclusion, and how we are pushing back.
Reposted by Alex Firth
Labour’s housing hypocrisy: councils serve almost 200 families with no-fault eviction notices
Labour’s housing hypocrisy: councils serve almost 200 families with no-fault eviction notices
Exclusive: firms run by five of the party’s councils have used legal loophole to serve section 21 notices
Labour-run councils have used a legal loophole to issue almost 200 families with no-fault eviction notices since the party was elected on a promise to ban the practice, a Guardian investigation has found.
Scrapping these orders, known as section 21 evictions, was one of Keir Starmer’s main pledges before last July’s general election but, more than a year later, they remain lawful. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Labour’s housing hypocrisy: councils serve almost 200 families with no-fault eviction notices
Reposted by Alex Firth
Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn
October 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn
172,000 children in England are homeless tonight. And instead of fixing it, Housing Secretary Steve Reed is cutting affordable housing.
How many more families need to suffer before housing is treated as a right?
How many more families need to suffer before housing is treated as a right?
The number of homeless children living in temporary accommodation in England has risen to the highest levels since records began two decades ago.
Number of homeless children in temporary accommodation reaches new record high
www.mirror.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
172,000 children in England are homeless tonight. And instead of fixing it, Housing Secretary Steve Reed is cutting affordable housing.
How many more families need to suffer before housing is treated as a right?
How many more families need to suffer before housing is treated as a right?
172,000 children are growing up without a home in England.
We’ve normalised a level of child homelessness that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.
I wrote in @independentvoices.bsky.social about why a right to housing matters now more than ever 👇
www.independent.co.uk/voices/homel...
We’ve normalised a level of child homelessness that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.
I wrote in @independentvoices.bsky.social about why a right to housing matters now more than ever 👇
www.independent.co.uk/voices/homel...
Why is Britain letting 170,000 children grow up without a home?
New data out today shows the number of children classed as homeless is the highest since records began. Alex Firth writes of a nation’s shame
www.independent.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
172,000 children are growing up without a home in England.
We’ve normalised a level of child homelessness that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.
I wrote in @independentvoices.bsky.social about why a right to housing matters now more than ever 👇
www.independent.co.uk/voices/homel...
We’ve normalised a level of child homelessness that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.
I wrote in @independentvoices.bsky.social about why a right to housing matters now more than ever 👇
www.independent.co.uk/voices/homel...
Reposted by Alex Firth
New data out today shows the number of children classed as homeless is the highest since records began. @alexwfirth.bsky.social writes of a nation’s shame www.independent.co.uk/voices/homel...
Why is Britain letting 170,000 children grow up without a home?
New data out today shows the number of children classed as homeless is the highest since records began. Alex Firth writes of a nation’s shame
www.independent.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
New data out today shows the number of children classed as homeless is the highest since records began. @alexwfirth.bsky.social writes of a nation’s shame www.independent.co.uk/voices/homel...