This document is intended as a toolkit for all parties standing in next year’s Scottish Parliament elections to ensure their manifestos are up to the task of meeting the child poverty reduction ...

UK Poverty 2017 highlights that overall, 14 million people live in poverty in the UK – over one in five of the population. This is made up of eight million working-age adults, four million children ...

To close the gap between the support many of us think will be available and the reality of high costs and long waiting lists, care must be more available, efficient and affordable. Care is a sleeping ...

New analysis from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows how the next Scottish Government can meet the Parliament’s child poverty targets, and in doing so help to rebuild trust in politics. But ...

In January 2003, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation launched its Neighbourhood Programme. A new departure for the Foundation, this sought to support community empowerment not through a major funding ...

Our event to launch the latest findings of JRF’s flagship report, Poverty in Wales. Our Poverty in Wales report offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in Wales. The report draws on a range of data ...

Poverty rates over time Poverty in Scotland fell rapidly over the decade from 1999–2002 to 2009–12, from 24% (1.2 million people) to a low of 18% (900,000 people). Over the following decade the trend ...

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 ...

Our analysis underlines the importance of work, social security and housing costs in solving poverty in Wales, as well as how much the coronavirus storm has unleashed strong currents sweeping many ...

This report looks at whether people can reach current levels of MIS based on benefits, Universal Credit (UC) and the National Living Wage. It also looks at preliminary research on the effect of the ...

JRF is calling on the Government to immediately stop deducting debt repayments from benefits at unaffordable rates, and to strengthen our social security safety net so that people aren’t forced to ...

It explains Labour’s defeat, the Conservative breakthrough in many traditional Labour areas, and what this reveals about British politics. Key to understanding this are the people struggling to stay ...