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 ...

This briefing sets out which children are at greatest risk of severe and acute poverty, and what a child poverty strategy must include to address it. Just ahead of the Labour Party taking office, the ...

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 ...

People going without essentials piles pressure on primary schools and GP surgeries, diverting resources and adding to workloads. We need an urgent action plan for hardship.

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