Resolution Foundation report says failure to reform has ‘slowly recreated the issues that undid the poll tax’Britain’s poorest households are paying an increasing share of their income on council tax, according...
Read MoreThinktank suggests ministers’ failure to raise LHA will push 90,000 more families into hardship in the next yearNearly 1 million children in the UK are at risk of falling into poverty or will face financial hardship as a...
Read MoreChild poverty plan must address the 70% of families with at least one parent in work, Resolution Foundation saysLabour must offer extra support to working parents, including with childcare and commuting, if it is to fulfil its...
Read MoreGuardian analysis reveals families often given little notice to relocate to already deprived communities far away with no extra support‘Take this house or you’re homeless’: families sent to a Durham town from...
Read MoreGrant will go towards repackaging food that would go to waste and delivering it to shelters, food banks and charitiesLabour ministers have backed plans for a £15m fund to redistribute food from farms that otherwise go to...
Read MoreGovernment accused of permitting a planning ‘free-for-all’ by allowing developers to convert office blocks into flats without the usual controlsLabour has been accused of allowing developers to build a new generation...
Read MoreCharity says soaring private rents, rising evictions and lack of affordable social housing are to blameSoaring private rents, rising evictions and a chronic lack of affordable social housing have led to homelessness in England...
Read MoreCharities sound alarm as government analysis shows 50,000 more people in relative fuel poverty next year – and another 50,000 by 2030Cuts to the winter fuel allowance could force 100,000 pensioners in England and Wales...
Read MoreExclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century• Poverty figures render government numbers too little and action very lateMore than one in three children and...
Read MoreExclusive: Researchers who studied babies in Scotland believe cuts to benefits and services are linked to riseThe introduction of UK austerity policies has been associated with a striking increase in the number of babies in...
Read MoreHomelessness charities call for long-term plan and say 18% increase to 4,780 people ‘should incense us all’Rough sleeping in London hit yet another record high this summer, with an 18% increase on the summer before,...
Read MoreThose aged 50 to 69 will be the worst affected, with some left in such pain that they cannot workAlmost 2 million more people will be suffering from sore backs, necks and other body parts by 2040 due to a surge in chronic pain...
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