The overriding message we heard from people with experience of low income was that the Scottish Child Payment must be a predictable, flexible and high take-up payment. The report outlines ...

The Government wants to increase living standards, reduce child poverty and end the need for food banks. This briefing sets out a bold and popular policy that can quickly help move towards these goals ...

As well as becoming a trustee, Jeremy Townsend will become the chair of Audit and Risk Committee for JRF/JRHT when current chair Paul Jenkins retires. Gillian Russell has also been appointed as a ...

Ruby is a Policy Adviser at JRF, working across our care, family and relationships and housing policy work. Ruby holds expertise in issues relating to children and families, having previously worked ...

We live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and yet people here in the UK are going without the essentials we all need to get by. Everyone’s circumstances can change. Losing your job, ...

Labour’s mission for economic growth commits them to ‘raising living standards in every region of the United Kingdom’. This is more than a welcome target, it is a necessity; both for the livelihoods ...

More than 1 in 5 Scots are currently living in poverty, struggling to survive on incomes that fall below what they need. This includes 1in every 4 children in Scotland. Despite the severity of the ...

It illustrates the magnitude of the cost of poverty in order to show the kinds of savings that a sustained reduction in poverty could bring. It also looks at some longer-term consequences of poverty ...

This year’s Poverty in Scotland paints a bleak picture of a society in crisis. It demands action from all tiers of government to avert the worst of this crisis, and time is short.

Our analysis underlines the importance of work, social security and housing costs in solving poverty in Wales, as well as how much the coronavirus storm has unleashed strong currents sweeping many ...

This report, from the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), is the 12th in a series monitoring the number of people living beneath the Minimum Income Standard in the UK. It focuses on 3 groups ...

Poverty levels for people in minority ethnic communities in Scotland are double the national average, and rising. Analysis in this briefing highlights several areas that are contributing to this ...