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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Samantha Howe has been working in care for 12 years, travelling around the sprawling suburbs east of central Leeds delivering vital help to vulnerable adults.
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Poorer pupils in England and Wales are “significantly” behind their peers, according to a report. The Education Policy Institute (EPI) study found that in 2019, prior to the pandemic, the gap between poorer pupils and...
Professor of social mobility urges Tory party leadership candidates to say how they will tackle disadvantage
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Benefit cuts imposed by the Conservatives since 2010 pushed up child poverty before the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report warning that poorer families are also among the most exposed to the cost of living...
When I couldn’t find a job, I had to wait five weeks to get my money. When it came, I got £70 for the month This article is part of the heat or eat diaries: a series from the frontline of Britain’s cost of living...
Child poverty rose across the north-east of England in the first year of the pandemic, despite it falling in many other areas, figures have shown. Research carried out for the End Child Poverty Coalition by Loughborough...
Study after study explodes the myth of the benefit ‘scrounger’. Sympathy is growing – but apparently not among Tories This article is part of a series, the heat or eat diaries: dispatches from the frontline of Britain’s...
Mental health problems are linked to financial squeeze on families, according to new Childhood Trust report
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As more people wind up in dire need, they will realise that being on the breadline isn’t the result of their individual failings This article is part of a new series, the heat or eat diaries: dispatches from the...
Campaigners have branded an uplift in funding for universal infant free school meals “inadequate”, saying funding announced by the Department for Education amounts to just 7p per pupil for each meal. Education...
