The number of people living in relative poverty in the UK rose by half a million in the year up to March 2025, new government figures have shown. There are now 13.4 million living in relative poverty, ...
The energy price crisis caused the sharpest increase in UK absolute poverty in 30 years, new figures show. Steep prices rises, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, meant hundreds of thousands more ...
Obianuju Mbah, Christian Today. “Deepening” poverty across the UK is making it more difficult for people to break free from ...
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ plan to slash £15 billion in public spending in the Labour government’s Spring Statement has already thrown tens of thousands of children deeper into poverty. The cuts ...
The UK government recently unveiled its child poverty strategy, with the removal of the two-child limit on benefits payments as the centrepiece. What’s sobering is how desperately the UK needs a ...
In a Sunday interview with The Guardian, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier De Schutter stated that the poverty levels in the UK are “simply not acceptable” and that the ...
An Oxford councillor has reacted as just under half a million children are living in poverty in the UK where at least one person working full-time.