Charities, food banks and local groups are experiencing a drop in donations as cost-of-living pressures cause demand to reach “unprecedented levels”. Voluntary groups are seeing fewer financial and food donations
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Investment of £20 billion will be delivered in the first decade of Scottish independence, Nicola Sturgeon has said. Ms Sturgeon (pictured) addressed delegates as she closed the SNP conference in
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Cuts to public services and living standards across Britain from 2010 contributed to 335,000 excess deaths – twice as many as previously thought, according to new research. These austerity measures
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Child poverty campaigners have called on the new Prime Minister to scrap the “truly catastrophic” benefit cap. Households whose benefits are capped will be left on average £65 a week
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A “significant humanitarian crisis with millions of children’s development blighted” is on the way if the Government does not act to prevent more than half of UK households plunging into
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More than a third of low-income families are struggling to access early years parenting support, according to a new report. Action for Children warned on Tuesday of a growing crisis
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Poorer families will continue to be hardest hit by rising inflation as they spend more of their income on increasingly expensive food, analysis of new official data shows. The Resolution
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One in five households where adults are classed as “key” workers has children living in poverty, according to new research. The TUC said its study suggests that the number of
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Around one in seven people could be paying a “loyalty penalty” for products such as mortgages and mobile and broadband packages, according to Citizens Advice. The charity said tackling loyalty
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Reducing poverty and economic inequality in the UK should be an “urgent public health necessity” as these are “toxic” to mental and physical health, a report warns. The Centre for
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