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?

Figure 1 also shows the proportion of individuals in the UK who were living in households with incomes below 75% of what is needed for a minimum socially acceptable standard of living between 2008/09 ...

Our analysis suggests that without further policy changes, headline poverty (relative poverty, after housing costs using the usual 60% of median income poverty line) is likely to remain largely ...

The causes of poverty are things that reduce your resources or increase your needs and the costs of meeting them. Some of these causes can also be consequences, creating a cycle that traps you. Life ...

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 ...

'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 ...

This study, the fourth in the Destitution in the UK series, reveals approximately 3.8 million people experienced destitution in 2022, including around one million children. This is almost ...

A prolonged period of falling living standards Since the publication of the first report in 2008, MIS has provided an annually updated benchmark, rooted in what the public believes constitutes a ...

Using data from Understanding Society, this report looks at the magnitude, causes, and distribution of the carer pay penalty, as well as its evolution over time. Recommendations: Tackling the caring ...

In the last 20 years or so, while overall poverty levels (and particularly those for children and pensioners) have fallen, the proportion, and number, of people in very deep poverty has risen ...