Numbers of children living in poverty continued to rise in the first years of the Labour Government and it was not until 1999 that they began to fall, from a peak of 4.5 million, they said.
The energy price crisis caused the sharpest increase in UK absolute poverty in 30 years, new figures show. Steep prices rises, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, meant hundreds of thousands ...
The problem is that it doesn’t feel like that to many of us living here’ Photo: Don Moloney ‘When poverty comes through the door, love flies up the chimney”. This line by the Irish poet ...
According to Marie Curie, 35% of working age people who died in Bradford were in poverty. Former PM Gordon Brown hopes the Tees Valley Multibank will help "put a smile on every child's face".
The UK government’s decision to cut winter fuel payments will push up to 100,000 additional pensioners into poverty a year, a Whitehall impact assessment has shown.