Britain on Thursday pledged to invest 1.98 billion pounds ($2.5 billion) over three years into the World Bank's International ...

New research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows that without effective intervention, child poverty is set to rise, ...

Anela Anwar, chief executive of anti-poverty charity Z2K, reacts to the government’s ‘Get Britain Working’ white paper.

Newly published data show that 5.2 million children in the United Kingdom – 36 percent of all children in the country – live ...

The new British Labour government won’t be able to seriously reduce poverty without also focusing on taming concentrated wealth.

The unanimously backed the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017 placed obligations to cut child poverty to 10 per cent by 2020. But with 24 per cent of children living in poverty, Mr Dickie warned the ...

The Work and Pensions Committee has opened an inquiry into the state of DWP financial support, after a minister admitted that ...

However, at least one cause of child poverty in the UK is glaringly obvious right now: the country’s “two-child limit” on ...

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.

A new report, ‘Towards an end to fuel poverty in Britain’ launched today and presented at The House of Commons by the British ...

The figures released by the Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall today is full of caveats - including that it takes into ...

TNT Sports pundits and former England men’s football internationals Peter Crouch and Joe Cole are helping raise awareness of ...