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 ...

Over four million children will still be living in poverty by 2029, the government’s own analysis has forecast, marking a ...

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

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 ...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has pledged to reinstate the two-child limit on benefits to pay for a 5p cut off pints of beer to boost pubs.

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

MINISTERS were urged to go further to tackle child poverty as MPs voted on lifting the two-child benefit cap today.Labour has ...

The number of children living in poverty in the UK has reached a record high of almost 4.5 million, in statistics branded “a source of national shame”. The official figure comes a day after Government ...

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

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