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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More than a third of low-income parents with pre-school aged children are facing a battle to access early years support, sector leaders have warned.
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The attainment gap between poorer pupils and their better-off class mates is just as large now as it was 20 years ago, according to a damning new report which says the coronavirus pandemic is likely to have increased...
A 60-year-old woman in England’s poorest areas typically has the same level of illness as a woman 16 years older in the richest areas, a study into health inequalities has found. Read the full article on this link...
Hundreds of thousands of school-age children are living in temporary accommodation during the summer holidays due to family homelessness, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned. Read the full article on this...
Nearly 40% of parents who are supposed to contribute towards the upkeep of their children through the government-run child maintenance system are failing to make any payments. Read the full article on this link to The...
It is simply not right that disabled people are at a much greater risk of falling into very deep poverty. In this blog, JRF’s Chief Analyst Peter Matejic and JRF Fellow Tom Clark explore our latest research and look at...
Our new report shows how the number of people living in very deep poverty grew in the years before the pandemic struck, leaving many exposed to the devastating impact of the cost of living crisis. Read the full article...
More than 30% have no access to free menstrual products at school or college, despite government schemes.
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Almost half of young people have been forced to go to bed hungry in the last 12 months as the cost of living soars, new research by youth homelessness charity Centrepoint finds. Read the full article on this link...
Council spending on early support for families has halved in the last decade with the most deprived local authority areas the hardest hit, research has revealed. Over the last ten years investment in early intervention...
