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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

MPs voted 458-104 to abolish the cap, which marks a major moment in dismantling a policy depriving kids of heating and food, ...

Scotland has seen a 12% drop in child poverty since introducing reduction targets into law in 2017, according to new research. There has been a reduction of 21,000 children living in relative poverty, ...

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

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

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 ...

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.