The energy price crisis caused the sharpest increase in UK absolute poverty in 30 years ... But the number of children and of working-age adults in poverty each rose by about 300,000 people.
Thousands of people are struggling to make ends meet in the UK every ... of working age, including those who are out of work or on a low income." The report's reference to relative poverty means ...
A record 3.1 million emergency food parcels have been handed out by a leading UK charity's food banks ... A third of school-age children living in poverty are thought to be falling short of ...
16 year-old Amber is pregnant, without a partner and on benefits. Amber reflects on the circumstances that led to her current situation. Teenage poverty, education and finding a job in the UK ...
He’s only five months old. “I suffer anxiety ... is that the scourge of fuel poverty does not discriminate by age. Indeed, some four million children in the UK are being raised in fuel poverty.
The UK government’s decision to cut winter fuel payments will push up to 100,000 additional pensioners into poverty a year ... The charity Age UK has estimated about 2.5mn of these are in ...
The research report, ‘Double Trouble’, investigates the relationship between economic inequality and poverty in the UK and examines the trends in relative income poverty rates and income inequality ...
Nuanced interconnections of poverty and educational attainment around the UK are surveyed in this unique analysis. Across the four jurisdictions of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ...
Inside Housing and Aico’s third Give Fuel Poverty a Voice survey – and a workshop as part of this year’s campaign – paint a ...
More than 111,000 people are estimated to have died in poverty last year across the UK, up from 93,000 in 2019 ... and losing income if they are of working age. Sir Keir Starmer’s Government ...
Nearly half the 14 million people living in poverty in the UK are ... working-age female carers particularly at risk. Single mum-of-three Jennifer Hobbs cares for both her 12-year-old son, Nathan ...