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A Government should ultimately be judged on how it supports the most vulnerable in society.

Ministers on whopping salaries expect keyworkers to self-isolate on £95 a week says GMB Union

It is likely that the economy will take some time to recover and we anticipate greater levels of long-term unemployment, so there will be many more people struggling to buy food.

The latest Government statistics show the number of children in poverty increased to 100,000 last year.

Four million children and two million pensioners are now living in poverty, up by 400,000 and 300,000 respectively over the past five years.

The Royal Statistics Society has chosen its UK statistic of 2019, saying the figure “highlights one of the biggest issues” facing the country.

Under its education proposals, the party also plans to recruit 20,000 more teachers and cap primary class sizes at 30.

John McDonnell highlighted the scale of inequality in the UK, saying an estimated 135,000 children will be homeless on Christmas Day.

One person suggested families living in poverty should consider a log burner or an Aga stove to keep warm in the winter.

Current poverty rates would not fall under Labour’s manifesto, according to the Resolution Foundation.

“Everybody just says it’s the Government as if it’s this sort of like bland blob that you know, you can just go and blame.”

Analysis reveals child poverty in working families rose to 2.9 million in 2018 – an increase of 38% since 2010 when the Tory and Liberal Democrat coalition came to power.

"People are living on the streets. Kids are living on the streets. Nobody gives a fuck. Nobody," he said.

She said: “Showing that it is possible for a woman to succeed and be recognised for success I hope is going to inspire many, many other women to continue working and many other men to give them the respect that they deserve like every single human being.”

Deputy First Minister John Swinney revealed details of the new fund as he spoke about preparations for a no-deal Brexit.

The Conservatives have branded Labour’s plans as “totally irresponsible”.

A new report has found alarming levels of children are short of the basics that help make up an adequate education.

The Children’s Commissioner for England has estimated there could be more than 210,000 youngsters without a permanent home in England.

One fifth are choosing not to go to friends’ houses or even see them when on their period.

Hey Girls donates a pack to a girl or woman in need for every box sold.

Daisy Wakefield, a drawing and print student at the University of West England in Bristol, has spent the last month designing and creating 40 hand made boxes for the sanitary products including important statistics about period poverty.

Shockingly over four million children are living in poverty in the UK. The figures have been released by the DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) and they indicate that there has not been any rise in household income between 2017 & 2018. This leaves 30 per cent (over four million) ...

Campaigners against period poverty are celebrating a victory today, after the government confirmed that free sanitary products will be available in all secondary schools and colleges as of September this year. In his Spring Statement, Chancellor Philip Hammond said: “In response to concerns from headteachers that some girls are missing ...

Chancellor Philip Hammond is being urged to use next week's Spring Statement to end the freeze on working-age benefits after a new report revealed some 200,000 Brits have been pushed into poverty due to the cutbacks. The freeze on DWP benefits is due to start its fourth year in a ...

The UN’s report on poverty in Britain is at risk of being swept under the carpet after just 14 MPs turned up to debate the issue in parliament yesterday. A festive hangover appeared to have swept over the House of Commons as politicians returned from their holiday break. Only a ...

A teacher has revealed children are sleeping in their uniforms because they don’t have pyjamas as a new survey uncovers 'distressing' levels of poverty in UK schools. The NEU study of 1,026 teachers in England found over half say they believe more children and young people are likely to go hungry over Christmas, ...

A survey of 1,026 members of the National Education Union (NEU) revealed some shocking information about the level of poverty in UK schools. 53% of respondents believe there are children or young people in their school who will go hungry over Christmas 74% of respondents who said this was an ...

New statistics that show a third of children are living in poverty have been declared an "outrage and a scandal" by Labour MP David Lammy. A report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation revealed half a million more people are “trapped” in poverty than five years ago, with 14 million people ...

The Work and Pensions Committee has today released its report on Government proposals to move people from older benefits onto Universal Credit. The influential group of cross-party MPs has called for the Government to delay the vote on these regulations even going so far as to say that ‘getting the process wrong ...

As Conservative MPs busied themselves lining up to walk Prime Minister Theresa May down the gangplank of a vote of a no confidence vote just weeks before Britain faces it's biggest challenge in decades and apotentially ruinous no deal Brexit, in central London the United Nation's investigation into the effects ...

This week the United Nations launched an inquiry into rising levels of poverty and hardship across the UK, exploring the human consequences of austerity cuts that have ravished parts of the country under the Conservative government. Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, will spend ...

Yesterday the Government published the Universal Credit (Managed Migration) Regulations 2018. Despite the seemingly earlier positive announcement in the Autumn Budget for investment in mental health services, the regulations published today confirm many people with mental health problems on existing benefits will be forced to make a new claim for ...

George Osborne extended the pay cap after 2015 despite civil service warning that the policy would ‘have a negative impact on family relationships.’ Conservative Ministers approved extending the public sector pay cap beyond 2015 despite a warning the policy would harm family life and force children into poverty. The previously ...

City Bridge Trust will help City Harvest feed over 60,000 Londoners in poverty after awarding the charity £79,800 to run a food storage warehouse in Ealing.  City Harvest will use the money to pay for a manager to run the London site which will deliver enough food to make more than three million ...

A shocking new study has discovered that over 14 million people, 4.5 million of them children, and living in poverty. The investigation also discovered that 12% of the total UK population is in “persistent” poverty, having spent all or most of the last four years below the breadline. The statistics, ...

Citizens Advice is helping someone with bailiff-related problems every three minutes as many in Britain finds itself descending into poverty with no lifeline in sight. UK households have fallen behind on essential bills such as council tax and electricity by as much as £18.9 billion, according to the independent charity, ...

Millions of people who produce the food for supermarkets are trapped in poverty and face brutal working conditions, with many going hungry, according to a new report on global supermarket supply chains, published today by Oxfam. Ripe for Change highlights how supermarkets, including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Asda, Aldi and Lidl, ...

New figures have revealed that nearly four million adults in the UK have been forced to use food banks as poverty grips Britain. The research, which comes hot heels of revelations leaked yesterday that Britain has nine out of the ten poorest regions in Northern Europe, found there to be "shocking" ...

During his trip to London in 2005 to support the newly launched high-profile campaign #MakePovertyHistory, the late, great and hugely missed Nelson Mandela said, “Poverty is man-made and can, therefore, be unmade.” Today, 50 years after another great black civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, established the Poor People’s Campaign, ...

Pupils, in deprived areas, are "filling their pockets" with food from school canteens, in desperation, due to poverty. These troubling findings have been gathered from a survey of 900 heads, teachers and school support staff of the National Education Union (NEU). Nearly nine out of ten (87%) say that poverty ...

More than 137,700 girls have missed school in the last year because they couldn’t afford sanitary products, a shocking new report into period poverty in Britain has revealed. The findings emerged in a report of 500 girls aged 10 to 18, which shows seven per cent have been forced to ...

Academics across the country are on strike due to planned pension reforms, which they claim will leave them in financial strife later in life. Students joined their lecturers holding mass walkouts across 57 universities up and down the country. Students and lectures man picket lines and ...

Hundreds of thousands more children and pensioners have been plunged into poverty over the last four years. A devastating report has today revealed some 400,000 more youngsters and 300,000 more elderly people are now living in poverty compared to 2012/13. The results track the period in which the Conservative's austerity ...

A damning study has today revealed one in five Brits are now trapped in working poverty as inflation continues to outpace wage growth. Ahead of Living Wage week (6-12 November), KPMG’s annual Living Wage report reveals 21 per cent of people in the UK are still earning below the real Living ...

The number of children living in poverty is set to soar to 5.2 million in the next five years as the richest members of our society get richer. New research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies has predicted an increase of more than a million in the number of children living ...