Very deep poverty is defined by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as earning below 40% of the median household income. According ...

About 6.8 million people — almost half of all of those in poverty — are living in "very deep poverty" in the UK, the Joseph ...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said 6.8 million people were living in very deep poverty in the year to March 2024.

Coordinated action and binding targets are required The UK government published its long awaited child poverty strategy at the end of 2025. It lands amid the highest levels of child poverty in the UK ...

Insights from JRF's (GPAG) on the 2026 UK Poverty report — the real stories and struggles behind the headline poverty statistics.

While Parliament Debates, Children Go to Bed Hungry. In 2025, the UK faces a moral emergency: 4.5 million children are living in relative poverty after housing costs, a figure projected to rise to 4.8 ...

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ plan to slash £15 billion in public spending in the Labour government’s Spring Statement has already thrown tens of thousands of children deeper into poverty. The cuts ...

Britain’s ‘poorest still getting poorer’ as Labour urged to act on ‘record high’ levels of poverty - Poverty will remain ...

Child poverty across the UK is both the biggest cause of social division and biggest threat to the country’s long-term economic future, former prime minister Gordon Brown is expected to warn. The ...

There were 278,740 abortions in England and Wales in 2023, according to statistics just released by the Department of Health ...

Mr Brown is expected to call for a ‘new coalition of compassion for children that will create a chain of hope for children right across our country’. Former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has once ...