Coordinated action and binding targets are required The UK government published its long awaited child poverty strategy at the end of 2025. It lands amid the highest levels of child poverty in the UK ...

According to the Child Poverty Action Group, every day the two child cap remains in place, 109 more children are pulled into ...

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ plan to slash £15 billion in public spending in the Labour government’s Spring Statement has already thrown tens of thousands of children deeper into poverty. The cuts ...

Figures from the Department of State and Pensions (DWP) show 25 percent of children in the UK in 2022-23 were living in absolute poverty, up from 23.8 percent the previous year. This is the largest ...

Child poverty and caregiver mental health problems have large negative impacts on the health of the next generation, finds a large-scale study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Led by ...

A Government impact assessment found tens of thousands of households will not fully benefit when the cap is removed ...

Some 6.8 million now live in extreme hardship, the highest in three decades, following the two-child welfare policy change.

Britain’s ‘poorest still getting poorer’ as Labour urged to act on ‘record high’ levels of poverty - Poverty will remain ...

ANTI-POVERTY campaigners in Wales called today for a new scheme to be rolled out to all families expecting a baby.The call ...

Very deep poverty is defined by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as earning below 40% of the median household income. According ...

Poverty in Britain remains stubbornly high, with more than one in five people now living in deprivation, a new report has ...

Hunger in the UK is the scourge that ceases to abate. It's time to build a road map to meaningful and lasting change.