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 ...

Local musicians have joined forces to raise more than £50,000 for a charity tackling child poverty in Sunderland. A large ...

There are millions of people across the UK who are struggling to pay their energy bills, with little choice but to live in a cold and damp home. And fuel poverty rates are only expected to soar in the ...

Cabinet minister Pat McFadden was pressed on the controversial two-child benefit limit after the Scottish government ...

A matchday donation drive to tackle hygiene poverty will take place later as Wolverhampton Wanderers play Manchester United ...

A worrying 40% of older people in England living on low incomes are cutting down on their water consumption to afford rising bills, a new study finds.

This led to devastating levels of destitution. British Red Cross research found that finding work and somewhere to live, and applying for benefits, often takes much longer than 28 days. In some cases ...

Retired professor of History at Sri Venkateswara University (SVU), Tirupati, Devireddy Subramanyam Reddy, recently released ...