This annual report examines the nature and scale of UK poverty and the effect of the UK poverty rate on the people gripped by it. The report examines how UK poverty rates have changed in our society over the last few years, as well as over the...
I’ve never felt so truly understood as when I read this UN report on poverty
Kerry Hudson didn’t expect that a UN report looking at underprivileged people in the UK would have such an effect on her, but here she explains why it makes for such important reading. Read the full article on this link to The Pool Share this:Click...
Extreme poverty and human rights
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has published a report by United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, following a visit to nine cities in England, Northern...
More than 100,000 children in UK at risk of Christmas hardship
More than 100,000 children live in families at risk of debt and hardship over Christmas because they are waiting for a universal credit payment, according to estimates by one of the UK’s biggest housing associations. Claimants who signed up after 20...
UK austerity has inflicted ‘great misery’ on citizens, UN says
The UK government has inflicted “great misery” on its people with “punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous” austerity policies driven by a political desire to undertake social re-engineering rather than economic necessity, the United Nations...
Food Bank use rises significantly report The Trussell Trust
The Trussell Trust’s foodbank network provided 658,048 emergency supplies to people in crisis between April and September 2018, a 13% increase on the same period in 2017. Read more. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to...
