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...
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...
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...
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...
Countries that allow economic inequality to increase as they grow richer make their citizens less happy, a new study shows. Until now, researchers have believed that inequality was largely irrelevant to levels of life...
