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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Employers that agree to pay the voluntary “living wage” in the UK are being encouraged to give their employees a pay raise sooner rather than later to keep up with rising costs and electricity bills, as inflation is...
Rising poverty may be contributing to thousands more children going into care in England, research suggests. The University of Liverpool study links a rise in child poverty to more than 10,000 extra children being taken...
The likelihood of improving social mobility for disadvantaged school-aged children is bleak, a major new report looking at the impact of Covid-19 and the cost of living crisis has warned.Researchers for the Sutton Trust...
More children should be given free school meals to help tackle the “devastating reality” of the cost of living crisis in England, teachers say. In a letter seen by the BBC, teaching unions said all children...
A new study from Loughborough University and JRF follows the experiences of 13 families living below the Minimum Income Standard during the second half of the pandemic. As they’ve faced an increasingly uncertain world...
Action for Children says levels of severe and persistent hardship in cost of living crisis are among worst it has seen
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Thinktank calls for urgent £25-a-week UC uplift and £250 one-off payment to cushion poorest from inflation
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More people in the UK are struggling to afford to eat every day as food prices rise, according to research by charity the Food Foundation. Around one in seven adults live in homes where people have skipped meals...
Little Village has published a report on poverty in families with young children. The report includes analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on the extent of the problem, which found that 1.3 million children under...
The energy price cap is due to rise by a further £830 this October, just as the next cold snap hits. This will plunge millions into poverty and worse – but the government shows no intention of stopping it. Read the full...
