About 6.8 million people — almost half of all of those in poverty — are living in "very deep poverty" in the UK, the Joseph ...

Very deep poverty is defined by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as earning below 40% of the median household income. According ...

Coordinated action and binding targets are required The UK government published its long awaited child poverty strategy at the end of 2025. It lands amid the highest levels of child poverty in the UK ...

Poverty in Britain remains stubbornly high, with more than one in five people now living in deprivation, a new report has ...

Some 6.8 million now live in extreme hardship, the highest in three decades, following the two-child welfare policy change.

Hunger in the UK is the scourge that ceases to abate. It's time to build a road map to meaningful and lasting change.

Report reveals that nearly 7 million people are living on well below the UK median income as the nation’s poorest get even poorer.

The UK Government has been accused of having a “profound misunderstanding” of the causes of poverty and food insecurity. The Scottish Government levelled the charge against Westminster as it published ...

Britain’s ‘poorest still getting poorer’ as Labour urged to act on ‘record high’ levels of poverty - Poverty will remain ...

United Nation Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier de Schutter visited the UK in November and denounced the levels of poverty in the country maintained by the Conservative ...

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 ...