The overriding message we heard from people with experience of low income was that the Scottish Child Payment must be a predictable, flexible and high take-up payment. The report outlines ...

As well as becoming a trustee, Jeremy Townsend will become the chair of Audit and Risk Committee for JRF/JRHT when current chair Paul Jenkins retires. Gillian Russell has also been appointed as a ...

The Government wants to increase living standards, reduce child poverty and end the need for food banks. This briefing sets out a bold and popular policy that can quickly help move towards these goals ...

Ruby is a Policy Adviser at JRF, working across our care, family and relationships and housing policy work. Ruby holds expertise in issues relating to children and families, having previously worked ...

We live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and yet people here in the UK are going without the essentials we all need to get by. Everyone’s circumstances can change. Losing your job, ...

Rosie is a Senior Policy Adviser at JRF, where she leads our housing and land work. She previously worked on consumer and housing policy at Citizens Advice. Before working in policy, Rosie worked in ...

Shān Nicholas joined the JRF-JRHT group in October 2025. She leads the executive team and works with the board of trustees to ensure the group does not stand still while a permanent CEO is recruited.

We all need a decent, affordable home that supports our wellbeing. It’s the foundation for our lives. And for those of us who need some assistance in order to live well, supported housing is vital.

More than 1 in 5 Scots are currently living in poverty, struggling to survive on incomes that fall below what they need. This includes 1in every 4 children in Scotland. Despite the severity of the ...

Building connections, through convening organisations with both tech and social/environmental missions, is seen as beneficial. Such collaborations could set agendas outside the commercial influence of ...

Our analysis underlines the importance of work, social security and housing costs in solving poverty in Wales, as well as how much the coronavirus storm has unleashed strong currents sweeping many ...

Key points 2022 had the greatest fall in the value of the basic rate of unemployment benefits since the start of annual uprating in 1972, fifty years ago. In eight of the ten April upratings between ...