Footballer Marcus Rashford has urged health professionals to help get more families in need signed up to a Government-backed food voucher scheme. The England and Manchester United player (pictured) said
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The Government’s two-child limit benefits policy should be scrapped and families given more help if it is to tackle child poverty, a new report recommends. The Social Mobility Commission (SMC)
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Out of work families will be left with just over half the income the public believes they need for an acceptable standard of living when the Universal Credit (UC) uplift
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Working-age adults in England’s poorest areas are more than three times as likely to die with coronavirus than those in the wealthiest parts of the country, research has found. Health
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The coronavirus pandemic has pushed young carers in Scotland further into poverty, according to a new report. Research by the University of the West of Scotland (UWS)-Oxfam Partnership found young
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Devolution of welfare powers is working well despite “highly regrettable” delays by the Scottish Government taking control of some benefits, the Scottish Affairs Committee has said. The Westminster committee has
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Ending the £20 Universal Credit uplift is a “callous act” which will push thousands of children into poverty, the Social Justice Secretary has said. Shona Robison (pictured) spoke as MSPs
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The UK Government has been urged to follow Holyrood’s lead and set targets for reducing child poverty – despite MPs being told it was “very unlikely” that the 2023 targets
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Child poverty has risen in every Scottish council area since 2015, even before the impact of the pandemic is considered, campaigners have warned. The End Child Poverty coalition points to
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In some parts of the country the majority of children are growing up in poverty, once their family’s housing costs are taken into consideration, a report has found. Research for
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