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A year into the new Labour Government, key hardship measures show no improvement - over 7 million low-income families are still going without essentials.
A national care strategy must put unpaid carers at its centre, supporting their choice to care or not through well-funded services, and valuing their skills to improve care quality.
The Government has proposed the largest cuts to social security since 2015. As well as reducing expenditure on health-related benefits, the Government hopes these reforms will support more disabled ...
As climate changes, economies stagnate or slow, and colonial patterns of exploitation continue — can creative, critical imagination navigate beyond today’s multiple crises?
While on average all families are forecast to see a fall in living standards this Government, families on the lowest incomes are set to bear the brunt of the pain.
Weak economy: this uses a forecast with higher inflation, lower earnings growth, lower employment and higher housing costs compared to the central scenario. Positive and negative inputs into the ...
The Government must tackle stagnant levels of hardship as part of their mission for growth, with worse living standards to come if no action is taken.
Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani households are 2 to 3 times more likely to experience persistent very deep poverty, compared to white households.
New modelling from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that poverty is set to rise for all family types except pensioners. The analysis shows families with children will see the biggest hit to their ...
This year our report asks how effective social security is at reducing poverty and advancing equality in Scotland.
Analysis suggests that without additional actions, economic growth will not be enough to reduce poverty levels.
'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 ...