Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a new cross-government child poverty unit. The new child poverty unit, based in the Cabinet Office, will bring together external child poverty expert and cross-government...
Charities call for reform to benefits system to tackle poverty and mental health crisis
A new report from a coalition of children’s charities has warned that an inadequate benefits system is contributing to a “dual crisis” of poverty and poor mental health among families. Read the full article...
Our landmark book revealed the cost of inequality. Fifteen years later, things have only got worse – Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
When we first wrote The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better For Everyone, we had no idea it would become a bestseller. The book was filled with graphs and statistics, for one thing. But in the 15 years since it was...
Gordon Brown launches London’s first ‘multibank’ amid UK child poverty fears
The ex-PM is opening the new facility supplying food and basic necessities against a backdrop of concerns for the wellbeing of children over the summer holidays Read the full article on this link to The Guardian Share...
DfE committed to cross-government focus on tackling child poverty, Phillipson tells DCSs
New Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has committed to a cross-government focus on tackling child poverty. Phillipson told local authority leaders through a video message at the Association of Directors Children’s...
Longfield calls for new government poverty unit ahead of general election
Former Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield has called for the next government to establish a poverty unit sitting within Downing Street as part of a 10-point plan to halve child poverty by 2029. The...
