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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Cost to taxpayer expected to jump to £3.9bn with 206,000 children in temporary accommodation, says Shelter
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Almost nine in ten teachers say they have seen pupils show signs of tiredness or fatigue when in school because of poverty. This rises to just over nine in ten deprived areas, according to the survey, of almost 15,000...
Secondary schools are so desperate for funding that 45% have used pupil premium to plug budget holes in 2025 – up from 32% in 2024, according to the Teacher Voice Omnibus Survey, conducted by the National Foundation for...
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has published a report on the use of temporary accommodation to house homeless children in England. The report raises concerns around the use of unsuitable...
Council spending on early intervention services has fallen by more than £2bn over 15 years, a drop of 42%, analysis shows. The Children’s Charity Coalition is calling on the government to “turbocharge long-term...
Survey finds vast majority of doctors are concerned at impact of health inequalities on their patients
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The number of children living in poverty has increased by 200,000 to a record high of 4.5 million, government figures have revealed. The figures show that after housing costs the proportion of the UK’s 14.5m children...
The government’s forthcoming child poverty strategy will fail if it does not focus on increasing families’ benefits and improving social housing stock, a children’s charity is warning. The strategy is due to be...
Thinktank says unauthorised absence is ‘a leading cause’ of performance gap between disadvantaged pupils and peers
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There is a risk that disadvantaged children may not be benefitting from billions of pounds of Department for Education funding given to schools to narrow the attainment gap, an influential group of MPs have said. In a...
