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.

The Government has proposed the largest cuts to social security since 2015. As well as reducing expenditure on health-related benefits, the Government hopes these reforms will support more disabled ...

As climate changes, economies stagnate or slow, and colonial patterns of exploitation continue — can creative, critical imagination navigate beyond today’s multiple crises?

Example 2: A newly out of work recipient of PIP and the health-related element of Universal Credit Richard is aged over 25 and lives on his own in private rented accommodation. He is not in work due ...

Figure 1 also shows the proportion of individuals in the UK who were living in households with incomes below 75% of what is needed for a minimum socially acceptable standard of living between 2008/09 ...

The gap between child poverty rates in Scotland compared to England and Wales will have grown, with Scotland moving from being 7ppts to 10ppts below the rest of the UK Almost 1 in 3 children would ...

The Budget is the perfect opportunity for the Chancellor to prevent renters from being pushed deeper into poverty by permanently re-linking frozen housing benefits to private rents. Unless the ...

Surging interest rates in late 2022 led to much speculation about the future of the housing market, including concerns that the greater share of private landlords exposed to rising interest rates ...

JRF’s current focus on poverty stigma (Campbell, 2023) has grown out of decades-long programmes of participation and advocacy work with organisations that are led by, and/or centre the voices and ...

The Minimum Income Standard (MIS) sets out what the public agree is needed to have a minimum socially acceptable standard of living in the United Kingdom (UK) today, to live with dignity. This report ...

The additional billions announced by the Chancellor flow into a childcare system that is plainly a consumer market, 70% of group-based providers are run privately (Department for Education, 2021).