Average incomes are expected to fall by £550 over this parliament, meaning the Government risks having the worst living ...

Very deep poverty is rising in Wales. More people using food banks, unable to heat their homes, or living in temporary accommodation, means the human cost and impact on public services is huge. There ...

This new analysis shows the level of proposed cuts for some example families, and how multiple cuts interact with one other. There are some welcome changes with people in receipt of benefits having a ...

The launch of this year's independent, annual state of the nation report which sets out the nature and scale of poverty in Scotland.

People going without essentials piles pressure on primary schools and GP surgeries, diverting resources and adding to workloads. We need an urgent action plan for hardship.

More than 1 in 5 Scots are currently living in poverty, struggling to survive on incomes that fall below what they need. This includes 1in every 4 children in Scotland. Despite the severity of the ...

This report, from the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), is the 12th in a series monitoring the number of people living beneath the Minimum Income Standard in the UK. It focuses on 3 groups ...

This year’s State of the Nation report looks in detail at whether work is working for people in Scotland. The headline poverty statistics in Scotland are reasonably easy to remember, partly because ...

Building connections, through convening organisations with both tech and social/environmental missions, is seen as beneficial. Such collaborations could set agendas outside the commercial influence of ...

International childcare markets Many international childcare systems with significant privately delivered provision and public subsidies include higher controls on public funding, including ensuring ...

There has been a shameful increase in the level of destitution in the UK, with a growing number of people struggling to afford to meet their most basic physical needs to stay warm, dry, clean and fed.

UK poverty is real, costly and harmful. Millions of people, many of them in a working family, are struggling to make ends meet. This report explains what poverty is and what causes it, highlights ...