Living standards are set to return to the depths experienced during the cost-of-living crisis by the end of this parliament, ...

Amplifying the voices of people with lived experience of poverty is critical to finding policy solutions to reduce poverty and increase equality. Support for community participation in anti-poverty ...

“Today’s actions alone won’t be enough to fix the foundations for millions who struggle winter after winter in devastating hardship. The Chancellor is right that change must be felt. The people who ...

The Budget is the perfect opportunity for the Chancellor to prevent renters from being pushed deeper into poverty by permanently re-linking frozen housing benefits to private rents. Unless the ...

New research is filling the evidence gap around why people are unpaid carers, and building understanding of their essential role alongside paid care services. These are the words of unpaid carers.

Everyone should have someone or somewhere to turn to in a crisis. But high levels of hardship in the UK leave people facing personal crises every day – being unable to afford to feed their family, ...

Debt deductions: Amounts deducted to repay debts, mostly to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) but also to other government entities or third-party creditors. For example, ‘advance payment’ ...

One of the greatest challenges we face is the way we’ve come to see our current economic and social models as fixed, even as they are failing us and the planet. We’re living through times of hardship ...

Not enough food. Can’t heat the house. No bed. Can’t pay the rent. Can’t afford the bus fare to go into town. Can’t afford to have a friend over for tea. Living in fear of the washing machine or ...

In a context where neither of the main parties are currently talking about the issues of deep poverty and hardship, this briefing sets out what key swing voters think about these issues. It looks at ...