This document is intended as a toolkit for all parties standing in next year’s Scottish Parliament elections to ensure their manifestos are up to the task of meeting the child poverty reduction ...

UK Poverty 2017 highlights that overall, 14 million people live in poverty in the UK – over one in five of the population. This is made up of eight million working-age adults, four million children ...

To close the gap between the support many of us think will be available and the reality of high costs and long waiting lists, care must be more available, efficient and affordable. Care is a sleeping ...

New analysis from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows how the next Scottish Government can meet the Parliament’s child poverty targets, and in doing so help to rebuild trust in politics. But ...

This briefing sets out which children are at greatest risk of severe and acute poverty, and what a child poverty strategy must include to address it. Just ahead of the Labour Party taking office, the ...

In January 2003, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation launched its Neighbourhood Programme. A new departure for the Foundation, this sought to support community empowerment not through a major funding ...

Meri is a Senior Policy Adviser at JRF, focused on work and what drives inequalities in the labour market. Prior to joining JRF, Meri worked at Citizens Advice on living standards and employment ...

Our event to launch the latest findings of JRF’s flagship report, Poverty in Wales. Our Poverty in Wales report offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in Wales. The report draws on a range of data ...

Join the Chartered Institute of Housing for a series of Talking about Homes webinars providing practical, evidence-based guidance and tips for communicating about homes in the UK. How we talk about ...

The latest webinar in our Talking about Homes series will explore how to tell a joined-up story about homes and poverty. The housing crisis isn’t an issue that exists in isolation. People’s ...

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 ...

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 ...