Barriers of living under complex systems Disabled people live within complex interacting systems which create barriers and exacerbate poverty. Those engaged in this research were clear that they are ...

More than 1 in 5 Scots are currently living in poverty, struggling to survive on incomes that fall below what they need. This includes 1in every 4 children in Scotland. Despite the severity of the ...

Very deep poverty is rising in Wales. More people using food banks, unable to heat their homes, or living in temporary accommodation, means the human cost and impact on public services is huge. There ...

Discussion ahead of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) statement on 26 March has focused on whether the Chancellor will meet her fiscal rule, and the extent to which near unprecedented cuts ...

After months of speculation on the nature of a range of potential cuts to health-related benefits, the publication of the Government’s green paper is expected soon. Liz Kendall is expected to set out ...

This report, from the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), is the 12th in a series monitoring the number of people living beneath the Minimum Income Standard in the UK. It focuses on 3 groups ...

Weak economy: this uses a forecast with higher inflation, lower earnings growth, lower employment and higher housing costs compared to the central scenario. Positive and negative inputs into the ...

Building connections, through convening organisations with both tech and social/environmental missions, is seen as beneficial. Such collaborations could set agendas outside the commercial influence of ...

Entry rates into very deep poverty are 3 times higher in Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani households than in white households. For the past decade, an average of around 4% of people not in ...

Tackling hardship must involve improving circumstances for people receiving ‘work-related disability benefits’ (health-related Universal Credit or Employment and Support Allowance) who face ...

This new paper from JRF sets out brand-new modelling and analysis that allows us to examine the true scale and nature of that challenge, as well as the present outlook for the future. This work is the ...

The Budget is the perfect opportunity for the Chancellor to prevent renters from being pushed deeper into poverty by permanently re-linking frozen housing benefits to private rents. Unless the ...