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

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

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 ...

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

About 6.8 million people — almost half of all of those in poverty — are living in "very deep poverty" in the UK, the Joseph ...

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 ...

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

United Nation Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier de Schutter visited the UK in November and denounced the levels of poverty in the country maintained by the Conservative ...

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

Report reveals that nearly 7 million people are living on well below the UK median income as the nation’s poorest get even poorer.

MPs warn of ‘catastrophic’ consequences if UK does not pause aid cuts - In a report contributed to by The Independent, ...