Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.

A new long-awaited child poverty strategy is promising to lift half a million children out of poverty by the end of this ...

Lynn Perry, chief executive of Barnardo's, shares her thoughts on Labour's child poverty strategy – and what more needs to ...

The no recourse to public funds policy is aimed at “temporary migrants”. But many children in households subject to the ...

More than 100 people in Ceredigion spent their final months living in poverty last year, new analysis suggests.

Fuel poverty in social homes has declined over the past year, but is that the whole picture? We investigate, using the Housing Fuel Poverty Index from smart thermostat provider Switchee.

Persistent poverty affects one in five children in the UK, and is associated with poor physical and mental health in early adolescence, suggests research published online in the Archives of Disease in ...

The UK Government’s long-awaited child poverty strategy will “deliver the largest reduction in child poverty since records began”, ...

THE Labour government of Sir Keir Starmer has chosen to leave millions of children languishing in poverty, the SNP has ...

Elizabeth Anderson, CEO of the Digital Poverty Alliance, offers her assessment of an issue that isn't limited to the UK... In recent years, we have heard much about issues such as digital exclusion, ...

The UK has seen a dramatic rise in the number of children living in poverty since the Conservative government took power in 2010, a new report claims. One in five now live in poverty in the UK, report ...

The economic crisis fueled by the coronavirus pandemic has shoved almost 700,000 people across the United Kingdom into poverty, according to a new analysis released Monday. But an additional 690,000 ...