3 d. ago New negotiating body comprised of trade unions and employers will help end 'poverty pay and zero hours exploitation' for care workers

The health and social care secretary today pledged £500million of funding to boost pay and conditions in the sector and described it as 'just the start'.

Economics

8 d. ago Raising kids in poverty: The UK’s ‘inhumane’ two child limit

Child poverty in the UK is now at record levels, with 4.5 million kids living in poverty. One of the biggest drivers of this is the controversial two limit child policy, which caps universal credit and tax credits to a family’s first two children . With the Labour government’s Child Poverty Strategy due imminently, many charities and campaigners have called for this brutal policy to be scrapped, but what’s life actually like for mums under the limit and will the government listen to growing calls to abolish the austerity-era policy? Journalist and poverty campaigner Terri White speaks to women in her area of greater Manchester to find out. Continue reading...

Politics

9 d. ago Gen Z is leaning towards one parenting trend when raising their kids, new study reveals

New survey looked at 2,000 parents’ approaches to raising their kids

Events

1 week ago Matt Beard's heartbroken wife and kids see huge sum raised within hours as TV presenter steps in

Ex-Liverpool Women's manager Matt Beard's sudden death at the age of 47 has prompted an outpouring of tributes, with a JustGiving page set up to support his wife and family

Politics

1 week ago After 36 years of paying taxes and raising kids in America, they’re self

Holly Baxter speaks to a family who are packing up nearly four decades of their lives and voluntarily leaving the country before they can be detained

Economics

2 w. ago Child poverty levels reduce in North Ayrshire say new figures

The council said it would not rest on its laurels despite the positive trend.

Politics

2 w. ago Stacey Solomon admits 'hardest thing' of sharing a blended family with rarely

Stacey Solomon has spoken about raising six kids within her blended family as son Zach celebrates his 17th birthday at Pickle Cottage and invites his dad Dean Cox

Politics

2 w. ago Voices: Surprise, surprise – Labour is reaping what it has sown

Instead of addressing child poverty, homelessness, poor working conditions or any of the real issues impacting this country, Labour has chosen to deflect the blame and pour billions into arms, says Jeremy Corbyn. Britain is tired of having no political choice – and we’re here to fix that

Politics

2 w. ago Barratt and David Wilson Homes East Scotland raises £160,000 in support of Cash for Kids

Barratt and David Wilson Homes East Scotland has marked a major fundraising milestone in support of Cash for Kids this month, raising an incredible £160,000 so far this year through its charity partnership.

Economics

2 w. ago Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise | Gordon Brown

Homes without heating, bedrooms with beds. If we are to offer any hope to the children of austerity, the next few weeks will be decisiveRun-down housing estates in Britain’s former industrial heartlands remind us of the poverty described by George Orwell in The Road to Wigan Pier in 1937 – but these days there is no Orwell to chronicle what the arithmetic of deprivation means for families condemned to lives of poverty.Millions of children, as the children’s commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, told us this summer, are faring very badly, living in “almost Dickensian levels of poverty”. And what she calls the striking awareness children have of being poor requires us to find a modern-day Dickens to hear their voices.Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010 Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago ‘We just want enough to get by’: Hundreds of thousands of pensioners going without essentials

The Living Wage Foundation has said that 40 per cent are relying on benefits, or money from friends and family to get by, as basic incomes are no longer enough to afford the basics

Politics

3 w. ago Failure to tackle dependence on food banks in UK driving public discontent

One in six households went hungry last year, says Trussell, with Britain facing ‘new normal’ of severe hardshipDowning Street’s failure to tackle child poverty and reduce food bank use is helping to drive public discontent with falling living standards and fuelling a desire for political alternatives, the UK’s biggest charity food provider has warned.Trussell said one in six UK households went hungry last year and, without ambitious policies to tackle deepening poverty, Britain faces the prospect of locking in a “new normal” of increasingly severe hardship across society. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago Poverty, poor housing and a lack of job opportunities need tackled to fix Scotland's drug deaths

Record View says too many addicts are slipping under the radar and dicing with death every day.

Events

3 w. ago Britain’s hunger crisis laid bare as 14 million going without food because they can’t afford it

More than 1 in 4 children are living in homes where people are forced to skip or cut back on meals because of financial concerns, as campaigners warn the crisis should ‘shame the government to its core’

Events

3 w. ago Mapped: Where families are going hungry in the UK as millions face food poverty

A rising number of families are being forced into hunger, a landmark report has found

Society

3 w. ago Dad snatched kids and raised them in wild for four years after 'clash with ex'

The children of fugitive Tom Phillips have been found safe just hours after their dad was shot dead by police after almost four years spent living off grid in the New Zealand bush

Politics

4 w. ago Shoplifting is justified for Brits living in poverty, says Green Party's new hard

Green Party leader Zack Polanski, 42, said he too would 'consider shoplifting' if he was also had no other option to earn money or obtain food.

Politics