New research finds single parent households almost 'twice as likely' to suffer with child poverty, including being unable to ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

Winter can be incredibly difficult for families living in poverty. Sean Harris considers how schools can understand the ...

Wednesday, November 27 marks National Energy Action’s Fuel Poverty Awareness Day with the Charity estimating 6 million UK ...