Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.

Every day is some version of this climb: child care, rent, groceries, the quiet math of survival. She earns 45,000 pounds ...

A report into poverty in Britain, one of the world’s richest countries, has concluded that millions of low-income families are “surviving not living”, while a growing proportion of the population is ...

London (CNN) — The most disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom are no better-off than they were 15 years ago, according to a new report, which finds a “yawning gap between those who can get by and ...

New analysis from Loughborough has revealed that 103,000 people died in poverty last year, around one in six of all deaths.

Britain's finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday a two-child limit on welfare payments would be scrapped in April ...

United Nation Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier de Schutter visited the UK in November and denounced the levels of poverty in the country maintained by the Conservative ...

Sir Keir Starmer will visit a school in Peterborough to meet children who receive free school meals. From September 2026, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Shortly after breaking up with his partner, a British man with HIV found that his address was posted in a shop window along with a warning that he was an AIDS carrier. Days later he ...