As the guide makes clear, with stagnating wages and high inflation forecast, the introduction of universal credit and the four-year freeze on working-age benefits, families across London need all the help they can get. Becoming an accredited Living Wage employer is a substantive way for local authorities to improve the lives of their employees -- and it also has a positive, ripple effect on local businesses.
The guide explains how councils can become accredited, and shows how local authorities that are already accredited can go even further as Living Wage employers. Read the Guide here.
Paying the London Living Wage is one of the measures used in Sustain's twin annual publications that track the performance of London boroughs in providing Good Food For London and going Beyond the Food Bank in tackling food poverty. 2017's reports will appear in October.
Sustain: Sustain The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity.
