Category - Poverty

The government must introduce a legal duty requiring local authorities to provide early help services to struggling families, the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) has said. A new report by the charity and the University of Cambridge finds that...

Study shows 23% of deaths in most deprived areas avoidable if mortality risk was same as least deprived. About 700 child deaths could be avoided each year in England by reducing rates of social deprivation, according to an NHS England-funded report...

About 700 child deaths could be avoided each year in England by reducing rates of social deprivation, according to an NHS England-funded report. The research, which analysed the records of 3,347 children who died in England between 1 April 2019 and...

Overall, since the first Covid-19 lockdown was introduced in March last year, 2.5 million emergency food parcels have been given to people across the UK. This is an increase of 33 per cent on the previous year and 128 per cent compared with levels...

Retiring head of Merseyside force says if he had £5bn he would spend 20% on policing and 80% on cutting poverty. Cutting poverty and inequality is the best way to reduce crime, a police chief has said, calling for more money for deprived areas to...