Poverty

• 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.

  

• Over 1.5 million people were destitute in the UK last year

  More than 1.5 million people in the UK were pushed into destitution at some point last year, according to anti-poverty campaigners.

  

• Council-run crisis support ‘failing’ people in need

  Crisis support schemes run by local authorities are failing to operate effectively, new research reveals.

  

• Rollout of Universal Credit increasing demand on food banks

  The rollout of Universal Credit is increasing the use of food banks by an average of 52%, new research has revealed today.

  

• Government cuts force over a million children into poverty

  One and a half million more children will be in poverty by 2022 due to the Government’s austerity agenda, commission reveals.

  

• Fuel poverty kills thousands every year, charity reveals

  The UK has the sixth-highest rate of excess winter deaths in Europe with thousands dying preventable deaths every year, fuel poverty charity finds.