At least eight million living ‘on inadequate incomes’
Almost two out of five families with children are struggling to make ends meet and do not have enough money for a socially acceptable standard of living, according to a
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New group aims to address Scots welfare problems
Senior figures from civic Scotland met in Glasgow yesterday to launch a new group which aims to examine the impact of welfare reforms on Scotland, and bring forward proposals to
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RCN Scotland campaign to tackle health inequalities
As a new YouGov poll revealed that 62% of people in Scotland believe health inequalities are unfair, more needs to be done to improve the health of people living in
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New report finds poverty figures much worse than expected
Thousands more people could be living in poverty than has previously been thought, a report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has warned. Poorer households have been harder-hit by the
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Report: Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission 2014 Report
The second annual State of the Nation Report which is published and laid before Parliament from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (SMCP), shows that Britain is on the
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New university study shows wide variation in child poverty
Research undertaken by Loughborough University for The Campaign to End Child Poverty published today shows big variations in child poverty across the UK. The new figures, complied by the University’s
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Engage: How are life-chances of children at risk in the UK?
Five out of 1,000 children in the UK will not live until their fifth birthday, reports Dick Skellington. There is a growing scandal in British society we tend to turn
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26% in Northern Ireland live with ‘multiple deprivation’
26% of adults in Northern Ireland live with ‘multiple deprivation’, (lacking three or more basic necessities), and this figure increases among those who experienced violent events during the ‘Troubles’, according
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Engage: Care about poverty? Here are 10 reasons why you also need to think about ethnicity
Ethnicity matters when it comes to tackling poverty. But, says Helen Barnard, it’s not about broad generalisations. For the last three years we have funded research into the links between
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Food poverty leading to increased malnutrition cases
Illness caused by malnutrition is getting worse because some people cannot afford good quality food, a health expert has warned. Figures released earlier this month by the Health and Social
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