Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.

Every day is some version of this climb: child care, rent, groceries, the quiet math of survival. She earns 45,000 pounds ...

New analysis from Loughborough has revealed that 103,000 people died in poverty last year, around one in six of all deaths.

Britain’s unpopular center-left Labour government sought to seize the political narrative Wednesday with a tax-raising budget that it hopes will boost economic growth, reduce child poverty and ease ...

Britain's finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday a two-child limit on welfare payments would be scrapped in April ...

The no recourse to public funds policy is aimed at “temporary migrants”. But many children in households subject to the ...

Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic are difficult to access without cash, but is the answer to really to roll these out on the NHS ...

NEWCASTLE, England — At a food bank in a rundown part of northeast England, an unemployed mother and her adult son were having an odd morning. Denise and Michael Hunter typically come here for a quiet ...

A report into poverty in Britain, one of the world’s richest countries, has concluded that millions of low-income families are “surviving not living”, while a growing proportion of the population is ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said measures would soon be announced to reduce child poverty, possibly hinting that the ...