child poverty
‘Frankly a disgrace’: Food bank use remains “well above pre-pandemic level”
Dependence on food banks is still “well above” what it was before the pandemic, with emergency parcels feeding children on the rise, says Britain’s leading food bank charity.
Our recovery from the pandemic must tackle the poverty and inequalities laid bare by Covid
'Plaid Cymru has consistently called on the Welsh Government to take action on the scandalous levels of child poverty in Wales - the highest level of all the UK nations'
Schools are propping up a ‘failing welfare state’ – report
Families in need are turning to schools for the support the welfare system is failing to provide.
Sarah Owen MP: Cutting aid is a blow to the world’s poorest and a step back from world stage
'As a country that wants to stand proud at home and abroad, we have a moral obligation to the world’s poorest.'
A new report reveals a groundswell of support for increased benefits payments
A survey of 1,647 respondents in the UK found that more than half adults wanted higher benefits for disabled people, carers and lone parents.
Four years of the Tories’ two-child limit: Here’s what it’s done
If the Tory policy was scrapped now 200,000 children would immediately be lifted out of poverty