Thea Jaffe never expected to use a baby bank. In fact, she was responsible for referring other single parents from her local community group to the charity Little Village, which provides essential ...

Big Issue founder Lord John Bird renews his calls for a new Whitehall department - focused solely on eradicating poverty in ...

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 ...

POVERTY has been normalised. Walking the streets of London, it is impossible not to be struck by the number of homeless ...

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 ...

The warning signs have been around for some time now – increasing foodbank use, the very public fight over who should foot the bill to feed hungry children during lockdown – but we’re close to having ...

LONDON, Feb 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Millions of children are growing up in poverty in Britain - one of the world's richest countries - as families struggle with soaring food prices, energy ...