Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.

Across Britain, families that once felt solidly middle class are losing their footing as rents, child care costs and food prices outpace wages.

The no recourse to public funds policy is aimed at “temporary migrants”. But many children in households subject to the ...

A report into poverty in Britain, one of the world’s richest countries, has concluded that millions of low-income families are “surviving not living”, while a growing proportion of the population is ...

While Parliament Debates, Children Go to Bed Hungry. In 2025, the UK faces a moral emergency: 4.5 million children are living in relative poverty after housing costs, a figure projected to rise to 4.8 ...

New analysis from Loughborough has revealed that 103,000 people died in poverty last year, around one in six of all deaths.

FORMER prime minister Gordon Brown piled pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves today to tackle the “shameful epidemic” of child poverty. In a speech in London that took place after the Morning Star ...

The paper analyses changes in the generosity of public transfers to the unemployed and their effectiveness for the alleviation of poverty risks in Germany and Great Britain between the 1990s and the ...

The ex-Labour leader is set to claim that young people are being failed in Britain during a speech on Thursday. He is also set to ramp up the pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to raise taxes on ...

Newcastle University received funding to support this research from Standard Life Foundation, a charity whose objective is to address financial hardship. Mark Shucksmith was principal investigator but ...