Welfare Reform and Youth Unemployment
11th June 2026On Thursday 11 June, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, Lord Bishop of Leicester, spoke in a House of Lords debate on Welfare Reform and Youth Unemployment.
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On Thursday 11 June, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, Lord Bishop of Leicester, spoke in a House of Lords debate on Welfare Reform and Youth Unemployment.
A statement from the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, Lord Bishop of Leicester, on the use of AI (artificial intelligence) by church leaders.
The Rt Revd Martyn Snow, Lord Bishop of Leicester, addressed the House with a speech highlighting how the limit deepens both material poverty and the sense of shame experienced by families, reinforcing harmful assumptions about their responsibility and worth. He called for cross‑party collaboration on how to end the policy and address the wider structural and emotional impacts of poverty on people’s lives.