Poverty

A strong benefits system is the sign of a healthy society – and essential to ending child poverty
Joseph Howes

A strong benefits system is the sign of a healthy society – and essential to ending child poverty

Labour must ‘immediately’ scrap two-child benefit cap if it wants to end child poverty, charities say
Child poverty

Labour must ‘immediately’ scrap two-child benefit cap if it wants to end child poverty, charities say

Meet the tireless volunteers making sure children in poverty have a Christmas to remember
Christmas toy appeals

Meet the tireless volunteers making sure children in poverty have a Christmas to remember

‘A national disgrace’: A quarter of households with children under four don’t have enough food
Food poverty

‘A national disgrace’: A quarter of households with children under four don’t have enough food

‘Get Britain Working’ risks becoming empty words without urgent reforms to the benefits system
Anela Anwar

‘Get Britain Working’ risks becoming empty words without urgent reforms to the benefits system

Get Britain Working: What are Labour’s plans for the DWP, benefits and employment support?
Department for Work and Pensions

Get Britain Working: What are Labour’s plans for the DWP, benefits and employment support?

Benefit claimants need enough money to buy food if Labour wants to ‘get Britain working again’
Benefits

Benefit claimants need enough money to buy food if Labour wants to ‘get Britain working again’

Here’s how to donate to a food bank near you this winter
Food banks

Here’s how to donate to a food bank near you this winter

How to donate toys and charity Christmas gifts to children
Christmas

How to donate toys and charity Christmas gifts to children

Hunger is a violation of our basic human rights – we should be outraged by UK’s food bank crisis
Alex Firth

Hunger is a violation of our basic human rights – we should be outraged by UK’s food bank crisis

‘Living is expensive’: DWP winter fuel cuts forcing pensioners to choose between heating and eating
Winter fuel payment

‘Living is expensive’: DWP winter fuel cuts forcing pensioners to choose between heating and eating

‘Dismay’ for disabled and vulnerable households as average annual energy bills to rise to £1,738
Energy bills

‘Dismay’ for disabled and vulnerable households as average annual energy bills to rise to £1,738

Winter fuel benefit cuts will send pensioners to hospital, DWP warned: ‘It’s a political choice’
Winter fuel payment

Winter fuel benefit cuts will send pensioners to hospital, DWP warned: ‘It’s a political choice’

Number of people turning to food banks is shocking – but it’s the tip of the hunger iceberg
Sabine Goodwin

Number of people turning to food banks is shocking – but it’s the tip of the hunger iceberg

Ghosts star Charlotte Ritchie: ‘It’s a tragedy people can’t afford their essentials’
Food banks

Ghosts star Charlotte Ritchie: ‘It’s a tragedy people can’t afford their essentials’

‘This cannot go on’: Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time
Food banks

‘This cannot go on’: Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time

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More than 16 million people in poverty, report finds – with deprivation at highest level in decades
Social Justice

More than 16 million people in poverty, report finds – with deprivation at highest level in decades

Energy bills set to rise in January as millions ‘dangerously’ rationing heating
Energy bills

Energy bills set to rise in January as millions ‘dangerously’ rationing heating

Balancing childcare and work is driving up poverty – especially for children with additional needs
Hannah Mackay-Christie, Leigh Elliott

Balancing childcare and work is driving up poverty – especially for children with additional needs

‘It can’t stay like this’: Meet the North East families fighting child poverty by themselves
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‘It can’t stay like this’: Meet the North East families fighting child poverty by themselves