poverty

Rising costs are making it extremely challenging for nurseries, pre-schools and childminders to serve affordable, healthy and nutritious food at a time when growing numbers of young children are arriving at their settings hungry, new research...

• Union body warns of “rampant” hardship in key worker households
• 1 in 5 children growing up in key worker households are living in poverty
• Ministers accused of “abandoning” the workers who got us through the pandemic
• Mass Westminster lobby and rally to take place to demand general election

More than 1 in 4 (28.4%) children with care worker...

• New MRP poll reveals that in some parts of the UK nearly 1 in 4 people are going hungry
• More than half of Britons cutting back on heating, hot water and electricity
• Stark findings published as government scales back energy support and decides on whether to uprate benefits in line with inflation
• Government must focus on getting pay rising, says TUC
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New research reveals 3 in 10 children from low-income families have skipped sporting activities due to being unable to afford the personal care products needed to get clean again afterwards

• Almost half of low-income households are going without basic personal care products , such as shampoo, shower gel, and deodorant, due to being unable to afford
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• Around 1 million children with key worker parents are living below the breadline, research shows
• In some parts of Britain more than two-fifths of kids in key worker households are living below the breadline
• Poverty levels “likely to get worse” as ministers hold down pay
• Key workers in the public sector facing another year of real-terms pay cuts
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The change is being considered as part of fresh proposals that will get more of the money that is owed to the children of separated parents.

The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) collected or arranged £1 billion in child maintenance payments last year,...

The End Child Poverty coalition has today published figures providing a new Child Poverty map of the UK. The new figures estimate that there are now parts of the South West where a third of children are growing up in poverty - compared to one in seven, in areas in the country with the lowest child poverty rates.

Although child poverty in the South West is not as high as other areas...