Marginalised & Excluded News Poverty

Education leaders back Marcus Rashford’s free school meals campaign

More than 30 influential education leaders have written a letter to ministers urging the government to support footballer Marcus Rashford’s campaign on free school meals. Rashford has already successfully...

October 19, 2020

Marginalised & Excluded News Poverty

Child poverty increases in England across the north and Midlands

Child poverty has shot up in towns and cities across the north and Midlands of England, fuelled by stagnating family incomes and the spiralling cost of housing, an analysis has found. Although deprived inner...

October 14, 2020

Marginalised & Excluded Poverty Safeguarding

Surge in number of UK children applying for free school meals

There has been a surge in the number of UK children registering for free school meals, with an estimated 1 million pupils recently signing up for the first time, according to food poverty campaigners. Analysis...

October 12, 2020

Category - Poverty

Marginalised & Excluded News Poverty

Education leaders back Marcus Rashford’s free school meals campaign

October 19, 2020

Marginalised & Excluded News Poverty

Child poverty increases in England across the north and Midlands

October 14, 2020

Marginalised & Excluded Poverty Safeguarding

Surge in number of UK children applying for free school meals

October 12, 2020

Marginalised & Excluded News Poverty

Living standards for UK’s poorest plunge during pandemic

Living standards have plunged for some of the UK’s poorest families during the coronavirus pandemic, with over a third reporting they are financially even worse off since lockdown, according to Save the Children. The charity’s survey of households...

October 8, 2020

News Poverty Safeguarding

My working week: ‘One woman is forced to pay off debts with sexual favours’

The past six months in my job working to help people targeted by loan sharks have been busier because of the pandemic.
Read the full article on this link to The Guardian

October 5, 2020

News Poverty

Joseph Rowntree Report: ‘Bolder ambition’ needed to tackle child poverty

The Scottish government needs to display “bolder ambition” if it is to meet targets for tackling child poverty, a new report has warned. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said about a million people in Scotland were in poverty...

October 5, 2020

Poverty

Socio-economic inequalities ‘not to blame’ for disproportionality in youth justice system

Socio-economic inequalities cannot be blamed for increasing disproportionality in the youth justice system over the last 10 years, a major new report claims.
Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People Now

September 24, 2020

News Poverty

Disadvantaged families in England could face generations of inequality

Families face being locked into disadvantage for generations unless the issue of social mobility is urgently tackled, the government’s advisory body on life chances in England has warned.
Read the full article on this link to The Guardian

September 15, 2020

News Poverty

Extreme poverty ‘will double by Christmas’ in UK because of Covid-19

Britain’s largest food bank network has warned that UK destitution rates will double by Christmas alongside an explosion in demand for charity food parcels, as coronavirus job and income support schemes are wound down. Read the full article on this...

September 14, 2020

News Poverty

No one who has experienced food poverty would stand by and let it spread like this

I’ll never forget trying to feed myself and my son on £10 a week. I was a single mum, absolutely skint and living hand to mouth, even after I started working as a trainee reporter for the Southend Echo, following 18 long months of looking for a job...

September 11, 2020

Education leaders back Marcus Rashford’s free school meals campaign

Child poverty increases in England across the north and Midlands

Surge in number of UK children applying for free school meals

Category - Poverty

Education leaders back Marcus Rashford’s free school meals campaign

Child poverty increases in England across the north and Midlands

Surge in number of UK children applying for free school meals

Living standards for UK’s poorest plunge during pandemic

My working week: ‘One woman is forced to pay off debts with sexual favours’

Joseph Rowntree Report: ‘Bolder ambition’ needed to tackle child poverty

Socio-economic inequalities ‘not to blame’ for disproportionality in youth justice system

Disadvantaged families in England could face generations of inequality

Extreme poverty ‘will double by Christmas’ in UK because of Covid-19

No one who has experienced food poverty would stand by and let it spread like this

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