A stark new report by the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods (ICON) warns the most disadvantaged areas of England are ...

We look at where in the UK over 50s are at greater risk of financial vulnerability due to low homeownership and higher cost ...

"This draft strategy is riddled with bureaucratic platitudes, light on ambition, and wholly lacking in political courage." ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political ... but also on the baby bank community. The UK government’s long-awaited child poverty strategy is a pivotal moment to ...

It comes as the Government announced plans to expand free school meals to more pupils in England, adding it would make ...

Its critics say scrapping the cap would be the most effective way of reducing child poverty across the UK. According to the Guardian, experts have warned some 100 children are pulled into poverty ...

At least one in four children is in poverty in two-thirds of the UK ... that the cap is a “major driver of child poverty across the UK”. In the North East, West Midlands and Wales, around ...

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