Poverty

• Leeds first council to provide free sanitary products

  Councillors in Leeds are to consider providing free sanitary products in schools and libraries throughout the city in a bid to end 'period poverty'.

  

• A million young children will be deprived of basics this Christmas, charity warns

  A million children face a miserable Christmas without warm clothing, fresh food or celebrations, poverty campaigners have warned.

  

• One in five people are living in poverty, report warns

  Britain has suffered a 'relentless rise' in the number of working families struggling to make ends meet over the last five years, according to poverty campaigners.

  

• Campaigners calls for action on rule-breaking bailiffs

  Campaigners are calling for action to stop bailiffs causing people increased stress, anxiety and financial hardship.

  

• Council workers borrowing money to cope with low pay

  Council staff are being forced to rely on credit cards, pawn possessions and borrow money from friends and family due to low pay, a new survey has revealed.

  

• Poverty can lead to self-harm and violent crime, study shows

  Children from poorer families are at ‘significantly greater risk’ of being involved in violent crime and harming themselves later in life, new study shows.

  

• Half of households unable to afford a healthy diet, finds study

  Around 3.7 million children are living in households unable to afford a healthy diet, according to a new study by a think tank.

  

• More poorer pupils excluded than achieve 'highly valued' EBacc

  Poorer pupils are more likely to be excluded than to achieve the Government’s gold standard English Baccalaureate, a teaching charity has revealed.

  

• Foodbanks not ‘long-term’ solution to holiday hunger, charity says

  Anti-poverty campaigners have warned that foodbanks are not a ‘long-term’ solution to hunger as data reveals the summer holidays force parents to turn to charity to feed children.

  

• Child poverty at ‘highest rate’ in over a decade

  Relative child poverty may have risen to its highest rate in at least 15 years, think tank warns.