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

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

With poverty now at its highest point in the 21 st century, the UK is facing a poverty crisis – more than 16 million people are living in poverty and 3.8 million people are experiencing extreme ...

Sabrina Cohen-Hatton joined the the fire service at the age of 18 after experiencing homelessness, and now advises the Prince of Wales on the issue.

Poverty was a bigger issue for families in England last year than in the rest of the UK, according to an annual survey of health visitors. The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) said its research ...

SCOTLAND will be the only part of the UK to see child poverty rates fall over the next four years, a major new report has found. Forecasting by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) suggests Scotland’s ...

Every year our flagship UK Poverty report offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in the UK. The report draws on a range of data to identify who is most affected, how poverty levels have changed ...

On the current trajectory, rates of child poverty in the UK will not improve for the rest of the decade and the number of children attending school hungry is likely to rise, the Joseph Rowntree ...

The gap between child poverty rates in Scotland and the rest of the UK is projected to widen from seven to 10 percentage points over the next four years. The findings, published in JRF's annual UK ...

The UK Government won’t see progress on child poverty by the end of this Parliament – even with high economic growth – if investment in social security does not form a part of its child poverty ...

I had no advance hint of last Thursday’s Inquirer headline, “SWS: Self-Rated Poverty at 63%, highest since ’03” (Inquirer.net, 1/9/25). I suppose it was the 21-year gap, from the 64 percent of ...