Hardship is intensifying in our country. Around 6 million people face very deep poverty 1, nearly 1.5 million more than 20 years ago. This should concern us all, as going without essentials like ...

After nearly two years of collaboration, Storythings and JRF are launching Futures in Draft — a new platform sharing the people and stories transforming our tomorrow.

A job is often the thing that keeps people from poverty: if you are in work, you are far less likely to be in poverty. But work is no longer the protection from poverty it should be, and in-work ...

In last year’s report, we explored how the current job market is perpetuating the existing levels of poverty. This year, our focus shifts to the social security system, examining how it is ...

This report looks at 3 scenarios where buying private homes for social ownership can play a role in shaping the housing market and growing new, more equitable housing models.

Building connections, through convening organisations with both tech and social/environmental missions, is seen as beneficial. Such collaborations could set agendas outside the commercial influence of ...

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

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 ...

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.

Unpaid carers provide an invaluable service to society, but they shoulder a financial penalty in doing so. This report looks at the financial impact of unpaid care, and how policies can help mitigate ...

The Minimum Income Standard (MIS) provides a vision of the living standards that we as a society agree everyone in the UK should be able to achieve. This latest update sets out what households need to ...

Most people in poverty are in working families. Almost half of all workers have experienced low pay in the last 5 years. We cannot rely on work alone to shift the dial on child poverty. It is time for ...