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.

Newly published data show that 5.2 million children in the United Kingdom – 36 percent of all children in the country – live in poverty. While the government announced a Child Poverty ...

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

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.

The British Social Attitudes Survey shows 73% of people believe there is “quite a lot” of real poverty in Britain, the highest recorded level in almost four decades of asking the same question.

Special rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston said "ideological ... He concluded: "The bottom line is that much of the glue that has held British society together since the Second World ...

And fuel poverty rates are only expected to soar in the coming months. New government statistics show that 3.17 million people in England were living in fuel poverty in 2023, but charities believe ...

while 56.7% of the population identified as White British. Phil Mawhinney, Age UK's policy manager, said: "Poverty in later ...

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 it can take up to three months. Refugees and ...

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives based its report on tax filing data from 2022 showing that year recorded the ...