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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Primary schools are invited to be among the first to offer free breakfast clubs as part of a government move to tackle food poverty. Up to 750 early adopter settings will be funded to provide the clubs from April 2025...
More than one in three children and a quarter of adults are living in poverty in the UK as deprivation levels rise to the highest in the 21st century, according to a landmark report. The study by the Social Metrics...
Homelessness among refugees has doubled in the last year to reach record levels as charities hand out tents and sleeping bags to those forced to live on the streets for the first time, according to research. Read the...
A shocking 300 people are dying in poverty every single day in the UK, new research reveals. End of life charity, Marie Curie, previously found that 93,000 people died in poverty across the UK in 2019. But that number...
The Children’s Commissioner for England has published a new report on child in need plans, exploring the content of the plans and the support offered to families on them. Drawing on data from a sample of child in need...
The Government has published a policy paper laying out a framework for the development of a UK-wide child poverty strategy. Key areas the strategy will focus on include increasing family incomes; reducing costs of...
In its Tackling Child Poverty: Developing Our Strategy report, the Cabinet Office highlights that in 2022/23, 800,000 children were living in a household using a food bank within the past 12 months and three million...
Families in disadvantaged areas are the most likely to have struggled to access childcare “persistently” over the last four years, a report by Ofsted is warning. Read the full article on this link...
Poverty affects every part of a child’s life and leaves too many struggling with their education, health and happiness. Today, more than one in four children in the UK live in poverty and around one million children are...
The high cost of healthy food is a significant barrier young people face in having a nutritious diet, with young parents worst affected, research has found. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young...
