Nearly a quarter of households with children under five are experiencing food poverty, rising to one in two among single-parent families, according to analysis by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) think...
The Centre for Young Lives has published its annual State of the Nation report, collating data and indicators to track trends in poverty, mental health, education, safeguarding, housing, special educational...
Charities say they ‘cannot continue to absorb the impact of child poverty’ without government support
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Shelter has published a report on the lives of homeless families in England. Findings from a survey of over 800 homeless families include: some families were inappropriately accommodated alongside people who could pose...
The number of households with children experiencing food insecurity has doubled in just a year prompting increased support for the expansion of free school meals, new research finds. In January this year, 22 per cent of...
The number of UK children in food poverty has nearly doubled in the last year to almost 4 million, new data shows, ramping up pressure on ministers to expand the provision of free school meals to struggling families...
The UK’s leading poverty charities have called for a change in the law to fix the UK’s “failing” welfare system after research revealed that basic benefits given to low-income households are at least £140 a month below...
In a letter to Jeremy Hunt, coordinated by charity Magic Breakfast, 150 headteachers and school leaders have asked for “up to £18m over the next 18 months” to fund another 2,500 schools across England to deliver...
A quarter of England’s state grammar schools still let in hardly any poorer children, despite most trying to improve their admissions policies, according to BBC analysis.
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More than half of eligible families are missing out on support through tax-free childcare accounts amid concerns this form of funding is too complex for parents and providers. Read the full article on this link...
Reform of the benefits system for families, including increasing universal credit and ending the benefits cap, would help lift an estimated 320,000 children out of poverty and remove barriers to work for their parents...
Tougher benefit rules have boosted employment in the UK in the past 25 years but only at the expense of trapping workers in dead-end jobs, according to a leading thinktank. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said...
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a report on poverty in the UK which identifies recent trends across characteristics and impacts. Findings from various data sources and insights include: 3.9 million children...
