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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Study finds 1M Scots can’t afford adequate housing conditions
The percentage of households falling below society’s minimum standard of living has increased from 14% to 33% over the last 30 years, despite the size of the economy doubling. This
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New report finds families struggling with costs of raising children
The cost of bringing up children has soared in the last year, leaving families on the minimum wage 18 per cent short of the basic amount needed to live on.
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Scots Government commit £500K for food poverty projects
Funding designed to tackle food poverty has been allocated to 26 projects across Scotland, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced today. According to the Trussell Trust, the number of people
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Report: HM Government Child poverty strategy 2014-17
The government published its child poverty strategy for 2014-17. It said that good progress had been made in many areas to date and that the government remained committed to the
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Report: Educational trajectories of children from disadvantaged backgrounds
A report examined the educational trajectories of children from disadvantaged backgrounds. It said children in this group were far less likely to become ‘high achievers’ at any stage, and that
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Milburn urges social mobility help for disadvantaged children
More must be done to help children from poor backgrounds convert early promise into continued academic success, according to a new report. Disadvantaged children who start out as high attainers
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