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How Child Poverty in the UK Impacts Mental Health and Future Prospects

With over 4.5 million children living in poverty, the UK faces a growing crisis that affects not just basic needs but the mental well-being and future opportunities of its youngest citizens. As of ...
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Child poverty: How bad is it in the UK?

The UK government recently unveiled its child poverty strategy, with the removal of the two-child limit on benefits payments as the centrepiece. What’s sobering is how desperately the UK needs a ...
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More than 16 million people in poverty in UK, including one in three children

The Social Metrics Commission (SMC) annual report reveal a staggering increase in social inequality in the UK. In 2022/23, more than 16 million people, almost a quarter of the population (24 percent) ...
Diginomica

Tackling digital poverty - alarming UK statistics provide a cautionary warning for other countries

Elizabeth Anderson, CEO of the Digital Poverty Alliance, offers her assessment of an issue that isn't limited to the UK... In recent years, we have heard much about issues such as digital exclusion, ...
The Conversation

The pandemic made period poverty worse in the UK – but also led to new ways to combat it

Research Fellow in Gender Inequality in Health and Menstruation, Birmingham City University Despite the UK being one of the most developed countries in the world, there are still thousands of people ...
CNN

Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. So why do a third of its children live in poverty?

Thea Jaffe never expected to use a baby bank. In fact, she was responsible for referring other single parents from her local community group to the charity Little Village, which provides essential ...
THE WEEK

The UK's food poverty crisis

A record 3.1 million emergency food parcels have been handed out by a leading UK charity's food banks in just a year, according to latest figures. Of the food parcels distributed by the Trussell Trust ...