Research showed a rise in demand for health visiting support across the four nations in the previous 12 months.

There are around 1.8 million single-parent families in the UK; around 90% of these are headed by single mothers. One in three of these families with a working lone parent live in poverty.

A five-part series on Radio 3 focusing on the subject of poverty. In the third part, writer Bernard Hare reflects on his life growing up poor and witnessing poverty in the UK.

The chancellor says growing the economy is Labour’s main priority, but the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says economic growth ...