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?

Note: We originally made estimates for 2023/24 but have since updated them annually. A method note explaining the changes for 2025/26 can be downloaded below. A stronger minimum in the system If UK ...

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 ...

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 ...

Entry rates into very deep poverty are 3 times higher in Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani households than in white households. For the past decade, an average of around 4% of people not in ...

Poverty rates over time Poverty in Scotland fell rapidly over the decade from 1999–2002 to 2009–12, from 24% (1.2 million people) to a low of 18% (900,000 people). Over the following decade the trend ...

Our homes should be the foundations for our lives. However, all too prevalent are forms of renting that are high cost, insecure and poor quality, and which therefore hinder our economic security, ...

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).

'Work first' is a core idea that underpins the UK's employment and welfare systems, and effective ‘work first’ orientated systems have long-term, paid employment as the primary goal for people ...