Insights from JRF's (GPAG) on the 2026 UK Poverty report — the real stories and struggles behind the headline poverty statistics.

Investment in social security will reduce poverty this April, but progress will stall without a comprehensive set of actions for more than economic growth alone.

Carers are much more likely to be in poverty, facing the challenges of balancing work, care, and the extra financial and physical costs associated with caring. Around 1 in 10 adults in the UK (5.2 ...

Low-income families continue to face severe hardship, frequently going without essentials and struggling to make ends meet, with damaging consequences for health and wellbeing. In October 2025, a ...

Children in migrant families face high and entrenched levels of poverty. Even when their parents are working, they are far less protected from hardship. In 2023/24, 1 in 2 children in migrant families ...

Poverty rates vary across UK nations, regions and constituencies. Differences are shaped by local inequalities in employment, housing costs and tenure, benefit adequacy and access to services. Poverty ...

Economic insecurity is shaping how people in Scotland vote, think about politics, and if they believe change is possible at all — particularity those facing the most pressure. First, we look at how ...

People going without essentials piles pressure on primary schools and GP surgeries, diverting resources and adding to workloads. We need an urgent action plan for hardship.

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 ...

International childcare markets Many international childcare systems with significant privately delivered provision and public subsidies include higher controls on public funding, including ensuring ...

In Autumn 2023 JRF will be publishing its fourth Destitution in the UK study. People are considered destitute if they have not been able to meet their barest physical needs to stay warm, dry, clean ...

'Work first' is a core idea that underpins the UK's employment and welfare systems, and effective ‘work first’ orientated systems have long-term, paid employment as the primary goal for people ...