Category - Poverty

Millions more people in Britain are without a job than shown by official unemployment figures, according to a study that suggests the jobless rate should be almost three times higher. According to research from the Organisation for Economic Co...

As part of their ‘Chances for Children’ grant system Buttle UK surveyed frontline child support workers and found how children of less well-off families face multiple issues in fully accessing the state education that is available to...

Farewell to Welfare by Grace Petrie

Union body calls for the balance of power to be reset in the workplace TUC unveils news proposals to give workers more control and voice at work Britain risks slipping back to 19th century working conditions, the TUC warns in a new report published...

Pupils from England’s most disadvantaged areas are almost twice as likely to fail their GCSEs than those from affluent backgrounds, according to analysis of exam results. The analysis by education charity Teach First found that 38 per cent of...

Thousands of homeless children are growing up in cheaply converted shipping containers and cramped rooms in former office blocks, putting their health and wellbeing at serious risk, according to the children’s commissioner for England. Read the full...