UK Poverty 2017 highlights that overall, 14 million people live in poverty in the UK – over one in five of the population. This is made up of eight million working-age adults, four million children ...

To close the gap between the support many of us think will be available and the reality of high costs and long waiting lists, care must be more available, efficient and affordable. Care is a sleeping ...

This briefing sets out which children are at greatest risk of severe and acute poverty, and what a child poverty strategy must include to address it. Just ahead of the Labour Party taking office, the ...

Meri is a Senior Policy Adviser at JRF, focused on work and what drives inequalities in the labour market. Prior to joining JRF, Meri worked at Citizens Advice on living standards and employment ...

Our event to launch the latest findings of JRF’s flagship report, Poverty in Wales. Our Poverty in Wales report offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in Wales. The report draws on a range of data ...

Join the Chartered Institute of Housing for a series of Talking about Homes webinars providing practical, evidence-based guidance and tips for communicating about homes in the UK. How we talk about ...

The latest webinar in our Talking about Homes series will explore how to tell a joined-up story about homes and poverty. The housing crisis isn’t an issue that exists in isolation. People’s ...

Poverty rates over time Poverty in Scotland fell rapidly over the decade from 1999–2002 to 2009–12, from 24% (1.2 million people) to a low of 18% (900,000 people). Over the following decade the trend ...

People going without essentials piles pressure on primary schools and GP surgeries, diverting resources and adding to workloads. We need an urgent action plan for hardship.

The additional billions announced by the Chancellor flow into a childcare system that is plainly a consumer market, 70% of group-based providers are run privately (Department for Education, 2021).

Inequalities Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities face in accessing affordable and secure homes are rooted in structural injustices that are just not right, and must change. During the ...

'Work first' is a core idea that underpins the UK's employment and welfare systems, and effective ‘work first’ orientated systems have long-term, paid employment as the primary goal for people ...