More accessible childcare and an end to families being stuck in bed and breakfasts beyond the legal limit are among the ...

Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.

Sarah Montague and Evan Davis discuss how poverty levels are measured in the UK. It's estimated that the Chancellor's decision to abolish the two-child benefit cap will lift 450,000 children out of ...

Experts told how libraries, parks, sports clubs, and community centres act as “democracy’s immune system”. They 'build ...

More than 100 people in Ceredigion spent their final months living in poverty last year, new analysis suggests.

The UK Government’s long-awaited child poverty strategy will “deliver the largest reduction in child poverty since records began”, ...

In a Sunday interview with The Guardian, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier De Schutter stated that the poverty levels in the UK are “simply not acceptable” and that the ...

Locals in one of the UK's most poverty-stricken areas have warned that its council is 'neglecting pockets of deprivation at its peril'. Caia Park, Wrexham, is the largest council housing estate in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For Melloney Grant, a single mother with two boys who works part-time, it is the school holidays that fill her ...

UNIONS and politicians offered a cautious welcome today as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer launched a multibillion-pound ...

Elizabeth Anderson, CEO of the Digital Poverty Alliance, offers her assessment of an issue that isn't limited to the UK... In recent years, we have heard much about issues such as digital exclusion, ...

THE Labour government of Sir Keir Starmer has chosen to leave millions of children languishing in poverty, the SNP has ...