Phillipa Stroud: Coronavirus has hit those in poverty hardest. The Government must support employment, fast.

The next step is for a commission to be established that can develop solutions to the current inequalities we have seen.

Victoria Borwick: Ministers must act to stop vulnerable people falling through the gap of the Covid-19 safety net

The Government needs to expand the definition of ‘vulnerable’ to include carers and families with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities).

John Hayes: The plan to impose abortion on demand on Northern Ireland by the end of this month – and why it should be stopped

To respect devolution, the UK Government must not impose such a drastic development on the Province. Is this a test run for England?

Emily Farley: To close the disability employment gap, we need the voluntary sector’s ‘little platoons’

The Government’s current approach to contracts locks out small, specialist providers in exchange for a handful of multinationals.

Robert Halfon: Let licence fee payers vote for the BBC’s next Director-General.

Plus: More Ronseal, please. And: If the Treasury wants to flick multiple V-signs at blue collar voters, it will put up fuel duty.

Northern Ireland Bill 1) Maria Caulfield: Damaging, opportunistic, anti-democratic. The Commons should reject these abortion amendments

There has been no consultation with those who live in the part of the UK that these changes would affect.

Mark Harper: Social care. It’s not all about the elderly. Let’s meet the needs of disabled people of working age too.

The former Minister for Disabled People contributes the first article in a three-part mini-series on reform to the adult social care system.

Robert Halfon: Under our new leader, we must prize social justice above social mobility

We must tackle causes of poverty, not symptoms: educational failure, worklessness, family breakdown, debt, addiction, disability, exposure to crime, poor housing.

Philippa Stroud: Now that we can measure poverty, we can work together to tackle it

For too long, much of the political and policy debate on this has not been focused on the action needed to drive better outcomes for the most disadvantaged in our society.

Edward Davies: The next Conservative leader must make social justice their top priority

Government should be passionate about self-reliance, but we must also recognise the transformative power of an enabling state.

Potemkin legislation

There is a mismatch between Government announcements and Commons realities. It cannot attempt reforms without risking them being amended out of recognition.

Mark Harper: Social care. Let’s halve the disability employment gap.

The Government should get on with publishing the promised Green paper and return to the pledge in our winning 2015 election manifesto.

New measures to support disabled people. Rudd’s speech on reform – full text.

“So I will be reviewing our goal to get one million more disabled people in work by 2027. We can do more, and I want to set a new and more ambitious goal.”

Andy Street: In the West Midlands, inclusion is more than a buzzword. It’s turning our diversity into a strength.

It is a sad and all-too-obvious fact that most of the decision makers I meet in my role as Mayor are people who look like me.

How to measure – and vanquish – poverty? A new answer to an old problem.

Philippa Stroud’s new Social Metrics Commission hopes to bring light to murky statistical waters. But can numbers ever truly neutralise politics?