According to recent research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), Scotland is on course to drastically reduce child poverty, defying the trend of rising rates throughout the United Kingdom. By ...

THAT 14 million people in the UK, including more than four million children, are living in poverty is a “wearily familiar” ...

Poverty was a bigger issue for families in England last year than in the rest of the UK, according to an annual survey of health visitors. The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) said its research ...

Scotland's benefits system is providing greater protections for children, and that means its child poverty levels are set to ...

A MAP has laid bare the UK’s poverty crisis with half of kids living below the breadline in the hardest-hit areas. The findings, compiled by the Sun based on data released by the Joseph ...

Glasgow Central has the fourth highest increase in absolute child poverty in the whole of the UK, new research can reveal. In Glasgow Central, absolute child poverty has skyrocketed 54.05% between ...

A new campaign group is calling for the Executive to produce a strategy to combat poverty and protect human rights in. | UTV News ...

The chancellor says growing the economy is Labour’s main priority, but the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says economic growth alone won’t pull millions out of poverty ...

Ayr MSP Siobhian Brown has welcomed a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which highlighted an estimated 1.9 per cent ...