A national care strategy must put unpaid carers at its centre, supporting their choice to care or not through well-funded services, and valuing their skills to improve care quality.

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 ...

Nearly one in five households on low incomes in Scotland have gone hungry and cold this year, even before we enter the winter months. The UK Government must, as we have been saying for some time, ...

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 ...

Providing opportunities for low- to moderate-income households to become home-owners remains a key policy concern across the UK, particularly in England. This study informs the debates about the ...

To help build the evidence for JRF’s anti-poverty strategy, we commissioned researchers to carry out reviews of existing policy and research on a wide range of social issues that are related to ...

It finds that: The proportion of households living in income poverty in Wales has fallen over the last 20 years, especially among pensioners and lone parents, but remains higher than in England, ...

Considerable improvements in educational attainment among ethnic minority groups – particularly Black African and Bangladeshi students – have not been matched by sustained progress in the labour ...

No family in the UK should have to experience an inadequate standard of living. It’s not right that children are growing up in households without the level of income they need, or that parents are ...

What you need to know Reversing the decline in housing subsidies is key to enhancing the affordability of housing for renters. The value of housing subsidies has fallen from 16.5% of total day-to-day ...

A prolonged period of falling living standards Since the publication of the first report in 2008, MIS has provided an annually updated benchmark, rooted in what the public believes constitutes a ...

The causes of poverty are things that reduce your resources or increase your needs and the costs of meeting them. Some of these causes can also be consequences, creating a cycle that traps you. Life ...