poverty
Shocking chart reveals sheer scale of poverty in the UK
Around six million people were in very deep poverty in 2021-22 - 1.5 million more than 20 years ago
Ian Byrne MP: More than 100,000 eligible disabled children are unable to access the free school meals. The government must act.
'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'
Britain is in the grip of a new form of feudalism
'Feudalism never completely disappeared from the UK. It simply put on new garbs.'
Even a right-wing think tank fears Britain is slipping back to Victorian levels of inequality under the Tories
'The most disadvantaged in Britain are no better off than 15 years ago'
We must make the moral and pragmatic case for ending child poverty
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.
Shocking chart shames Britain on child poverty record
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.