Category - Poverty

Jobcentre officials have been ordered to stop referring penniless benefit claimants to food banks because it breaches data privacy law, in a move charities have warned will cause delays in crisis help for thousands of...

Britain’s poorest households have suffered a £4,500 hit to their finances since the start of the Covid pandemic, according to a report indicating that those on the lowest incomes have borne the brunt of the cost of...

Local support for families in crisis has failed to keep up with an explosion in “bed poverty” in England caused by rising destitution and the cost of living, according to the children’s charity Barnardo’s. Read the full...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation have published their most recent report into the extent of poverty in the UK and they found appallingly high levels of poverty for some groups. They argue that we need a coherent plan with...

One in four “economically inactive” people live in the 50 local authority areas in England with the highest levels of poor health, research suggests. The report, published by the Institute for Public Policy and Research...

The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes to $869bn (£681.5bn) since 2020, while the world’s poorest 60% – almost 5 billion people – have lost money. The details come in a report by Oxfam as the...

More than 800,000 patients were admitted to hospital with malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies last year, a threefold increase on 10 years ago, according to NHS figures that have prompted warnings about the...