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 ...

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 ...

Yet, poverty is a complex and contested subject in Britain, where there are several contrasting measures of deprivation, and some observers were skeptical about the necessity of Alston’s visit.

Child poverty is an important issue and living in poverty can have long-term impacts on a child’s mental and physical health, ...

If you’ve spent any time at all on TikTok recently, you’ll have seen plenty of videos from young people despairing about life ...

But poverty in Britain isn’t an entirely new problem. Unlike the novel coronavirus itself, it is not a social crisis that came upon us suddenly and without sufficient prediction or preparation.

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 ...

The latest poverty statistics are out from the Office of National Statistics and the usual suspects are crying wolf over it all. Some one third of the population experienced poverty in the first ...

One in three children lives in poverty in Britain where rising costs have left many families facing hardship By Emma Batha LONDON, Feb 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Millions of children are ...

Official figures show the greatest annual rise in child poverty in two decades between 2014 and 2015.

UK poverty: Six charts that show the true state of low income Britain Persistent poverty rates have fallen in Britain, but thanks to Government welfare cuts the overall trend is still bleak ...

UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston travelled the country for his report on poverty Ministers are in a "state of denial" about poverty, a UN expert has said following a 12-day tour of the UK ...