Official figures going back to 2018 are set to take billions in under-reported benefits income into account.

Figures from the Department of State and Pensions (DWP) show 25 percent of children in the UK in 2022-23 were living in absolute poverty, up from 23.8 percent the previous year. This is the largest ...

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 ...

Newly published data show that 5.2 million children in the United Kingdom – 36 percent of all children in the country – live in poverty. While the government announced a Child Poverty Taskforce to ...

An estimated 417 million children in low- and middle-income countries are living in extreme poverty. Millions of children in high-income countries are also suffering. And more children are at risk of ...

The Prime Minister told WalesOnline Reform UK would 'drag hundreds of thousands of children into poverty' during a visit to ...

Labour is lifting the cruel Tory cap from April, which prevents parents from claiming Child Tax Credit or Universal Credit ...

Reform wants to restore the two-child benefit cap: What is it and what does this mean for families? - Labour is aiming to scrap the two-child benefit cap, but Reform would bring it back ...

The United Kingdom is one of the richest countries in the world, so why do more than a third of its children live in poverty? The new(ish) government is integrating the fresh data into its official ...

Much of the world doesn’t have a clue what to do about child poverty, or even when to do it. In the UK the Labour government recently delayed its flagship policy on tackling the issue until the autumn ...

In the decade to 2023, child poverty increased faster in the UK than in any other advanced economy. Today, more children can expect a brighter start thanks to the UK government’s new Child Poverty ...