Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.

The government unveiled its long-awaited child poverty strategy overnight – but it has split opinion, with some critics ...

A new long-awaited child poverty strategy is promising to lift half a million children out of poverty by the end of this ...

Keir Starmer has said Labour's 'moral mission' is to fight child poverty as he launched a blueprint to lift over half a ...

More accessible childcare and an end to families being stuck in bed and breakfasts beyond the legal limit are among the ...

Sarah Montague and Evan Davis discuss how poverty levels are measured in the UK. It's estimated that the Chancellor's decision to abolish the two-child benefit cap will lift 450,000 children out of ...

Massive Strategy Launch: The Government launched its biggest Child Poverty Strategy in years, which aims to lift around ...

Experts told how libraries, parks, sports clubs, and community centres act as “democracy’s immune system”. They 'build ...

Gordon Brown is set to issue a stark warning that child poverty represents both the UK's most significant social division and its greatest long-term economic threat. The former Labour leader is also ...

A report into poverty in Britain, one of the world’s richest countries, has concluded that millions of low-income families are “surviving not living”, while a growing proportion of the population is ...

NEWCASTLE, England — At a food bank in a rundown part of northeast England, an unemployed mother and her adult son were having an odd morning. Denise and Michael Hunter typically come here for a quiet ...

Confronted by a sceptical public – 59 per cent of who back the two-child cap – this is the argument that Phillipson will now ...