‘Cost of living support may be receding but the tide of people not being able to afford life’s essentials is not. It is time we moved from stop-gaps to sustainable solutions.’
A look at the state of the UK economy under Tory rule
‘The current amount of Universal Credit people are receiving has no bearing on basic human needs.’
Around six million people were in very deep poverty in 2021-22 – 1.5 million more than 20 years ago
‘The families of children with disabilities and special educational needs should not have had to fight this hard and for so long to receive what they are entitled to’
‘Feudalism never completely disappeared from the UK. It simply put on new garbs.’
‘The most disadvantaged in Britain are no better off than 15 years ago’
Child poverty doesn’t just mean having less opportunities and less access to goods and services growing up. Its effects are long term and in many cases last a lifetime.
he report compiled by UNICEF compared relative income poverty rates, which means the proportion of people who fall below a threshold relative to the income of the average person in the population.
‘Childish and unprofessional language used by Westminster politicians, who should know better, does nothing to help our plans for progress.’
