200,000 more children in poverty if benefits rise by wages rather than inflation
Two hundred thousand more children will be pushed into poverty if benefits are uprated by wages rather than inflation, new analysis from Child Poverty...
1 in 5 residential care workers in the UK living in poverty before cost-of-living...
New analysis published today by the Health Foundation reveals that staff working in care homes are far more likely to live in poverty and...
More older workers are leaving employment due to ill-health — but COVID-19 isn’t to...
The nation’s underlying ill-health —rather than long COVID or extended waiting lists — is the primary reason for the rise in the number of...
Report reveals families raising disabled children are struggling to survive
New research shows that UK families raising disabled, or seriously ill, children and young people are now facing serious financial jeopardy and struggling to...
Eliminating sexual violence could reduce teenage mental ill health
The prevalence of serious mental health problems among 17-year-olds could drop by as much as 16.8% for girls and 8.4% for boys if they...
New study links 300,000 deaths to Government Austerity
Recent evidence has shown people across the UK are dying younger as a result of austerity, with people living in the poorest areas hardest...
University students are hidden targets of county lines drug dealing – new report
Beth Hall, University of Central Lancashire and Roxanne Khan, University of Central Lancashire
For young adults, university is a period of firsts: their first time...
New research from The Prince’s Trust reveals almost half of young people in the...
Almost half of young people in the UK feel anxious about their future on a daily basis, with over half agreeing it feels frightening...
Experts urge government to keep focus on levelling-up health
Experts are calling on the government to continue focusing on ‘levelling-up’ health, arguing that reducing the health gap is too important an agenda to...
Universal credit changes: increasing pressure on part-time workers is the wrong move at the...
Lisa Scullion, University of Salford; Katy Jones, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Sharon Wright, University of Glasgow
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has laid out the government’s “mini...