Famed Scottish actors call for action on pensioner poverty - Charity Independent Age found almost 160,000 pensioners in ...

Children on free school meals are less likely to take up costlier subjects at GCSE level like music, geography and foreign languages than their better off counterparts.

For all the progress we’ve made, the more visible forms of poverty have actually increased. And, in 2025, destitution – going without two of seven essentials like food, toiletries or shelter – is ...

The data comes ahead of the government’s strategy on child poverty, which is expected to be published this autumn ...

More than 1 in 4 children are living in homes where people are forced to skip or cut back on meals because of financial ...

British children face higher levels of poverty than any other group in society, and with more of them going hungry than ever, ...

Britain has not seen poverty this bad for more than half a century, Gordon Brown has warned as he urged Sir Keir Starmer to scrap the two-child benefit cap at the next Budget. The former Labour prime ...

Surveys by the charity found more than 14 million people in the UK faced the prospect of going hungry last year due to lack ...

NEWCASTLE, England — At a food bank in a rundown part of northeast England, an unemployed mother and her adult son were having an odd morning. Denise and Michael Hunter typically come here for a quiet ...

Poverty and hardship are “widespread” and “pervasive”, a charity has warned as it estimates that over 660,000 people in Wales ...

A report into poverty in Britain, one of the world’s richest countries, has concluded that millions of low-income families are “surviving not living”, while a growing proportion of the population is ...

Data from smart thermostat provider Switchee shows that across the UK, the number of homes that went into fuel poverty in the past year fell, with warm weather likely to be playing a key role ...