By Ellie Harwood, Social Change Manager at Turn2us The UK’s social security system is a vital part of our civic infrastructure. It’s as essential to a healthy, flourishing society as the NHS, our educ...

The problems caused by neoliberalism cannot be addressed by bigger doses of neoliberal policies which prioritise profits and corporate interests over people’s welfare

Why have our politicians forgotten about the cost-of-living crisis?

Purchase of snowmobiles, timeshares and furs prohibited, despite asylum seekers receiving only £9.95 a week

New research from the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) at Loughborough University shows that students in England are being left with huge shortfalls in their living costs – with the maximum...

Revised bill passed after UK government rowed back on cuts will mean fewer rather than more people in relative poverty in 2030

Monthly estimates of payrolled employees and their pay from HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data.

The Labour MP says she could not vote for the welfare bill published by the government earlier this week.

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A one-person household needs £13,400 a year for a basic standards of living in retirement, a report suggests.

Overall, 42% of constituencies in the UK have a child poverty rate higher than the national average of 31%, according to new analysis by Loughborough University

The cost of sending children to school in the UK has ‘significantly increased’ since 2022, a report has found

The latest Household Below Average Income (HBAI) statistics show that poverty continues to affect millions of children in the UK, with 4.5 million affected by poverty during 2023-2024, an increase of 100,00 on the year before. These figures should shame us all, and must be examined alongside the UK Government’s proposals to take £4.8 billion in social security support from some of the most vulnerable, and indeed poorest, among us. The Government’s own Impact Assessment suggests that 50,000 more children will be pulled into relative poverty as a direct result of these changes. But another way is possible. For the past five years, almost 200 parents and carers living on a low-income from all four nations of the UK have been working alongside researchers at the University of York and Child Poverty Action Group to document everyday life in poverty and to push for change. The project started life as Covid Realities in the pandemic and became Changing Realities in a cost-of-living crisis that has never gone away. In our work together, we have contributed real-time evidence to policymakers, challenged harmful media narratives, and developed co-produced recommendations for change.

'Despite the increase, the minimum wage will still be comparatively low, and millions will live below the minimum acceptable standard of living.'

Despite more free childcare, the cost of having a young family has risen more than a quarter in real terms since 2019, report Jack Simpson and Anna Dowell