The research found deprivation and food insecurity would be up to 9% higher without the benefit unique to Scotland.

Lynn Perry, chief executive of Barnardo's, shares her thoughts on Labour's child poverty strategy – and what more needs to ...

The new child poverty strategy promises the biggest fall in child poverty in decades. Will it also deliver better health for ...

Growing up in poverty can therefore impact educational outcomes and future labour market success. "Hopefully, the forthcoming investment will start to reverse this worrying trend and significantly ...

BENEFITS for families will remain capped at £22,020 a year despite the two-child limit being scrapped in the Chancellor’s ...

More accessible childcare and an end to families being stuck in bed and breakfasts beyond the legal limit are among the ...

Removing the two-child benefit cap is central to the government's new plan. But charities warn it has missed an opportunity ...

The no recourse to public funds policy is aimed at “temporary migrants”. But many children in households subject to the ...

To speak to Anna Maxwell Martin about child poverty is to feel energised into action. In recent years the actress - known to ...

The UK Government’s long-awaited child poverty strategy will “deliver the largest reduction in child poverty since records began”, ...

The first details of the long-awaited child poverty strategy are being revealed, ahead of its publication later this week.

Funding for work to uncover the experiences of children and young people living in poverty in York has been approved.