Dr Eunan O'Neill, director of public health for Cornwall, said child poverty affected "every aspect of a child's life", and said it was "a crisis that cannot be ignored".

The Children’s Commissioner has warned some young people in England are living in an “almost-Dickensian level of poverty” as a new report reveals the “real hardship” facing some families. Black mould ...

Exclusive: Tens of thousands of families are forced to take out loans to cover the five-week wait until their first universal ...

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

Renewed efforts to reduce child poverty in England between now and 2033, such as removing the 2-child limit on child benefit, would significantly boost several aspects of child health and narrow ...

The Education Policy Institute is recommending a new national system of auto-enrolment for free school meals and other ...

Torran Semple receives funding from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant EP/S023305/1. John Harvey does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

What is life like in Starmer's UK? — Image by © Tim Sandle What is life like in Starmer's UK? — Image by © Tim Sandle A lack of food has become the biggest ...

Britain’s leading end of life charity, Marie Curie paints a terrible picture of over 100,000 people in the UK dying in poverty every year. The report, “Dying in Poverty 2024”, centres on data collated ...

United Nation Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier de Schutter visited the UK in November and denounced the levels of poverty in the country maintained by the Conservative ...

Scientists from the United Kingdom have evaluated the impact of heat pumps on fuel poverty in England and Scotland. Their analysis considered pre- and post-energy crisis prices using levels from 2019 ...