All news on the topic: poverty

Carers have found patients lying in distress, curled up under blankets for hours in damp homes. Data from end-of-life charity Marie Curie found 89% of staff have patients with cash woes

Former rough sleeper Nigel Hollander, 78, decided to dedicate his time to helping the homeless and in need after watching a YouTube video in which a prankster played a cruel trick

Writer's great-great-great-granddaughter believes it's a relevant time for people to appreciate the story told in Great Expectations ahead of new adaptation

Paris Cambridge, and her family from Seacroft, Leeds, have been hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis like countless Brits, and left desperately asking what she can do when her family are down to her 'last tenner'

A mum has shared the heartbreaking poverty her family faced before she started an agency to find child stars – and now reportedly makes $100,000 a month.

An increasing number of people are forced to use foodbanks in Poole, the coastal town whose outcrop of Sandbanks this week became the most expensive place to live on the planet

Dr Miriam Stoppard unpicks some research from University College London that shows the upside of rural living on brain power

Period poverty is a major crisis faced by many in the UK and across the world but is thought of as taboo - this International Women's Day chef Nadiya Hussain is fighting back to help those in need

Fareshare has written a letter, signed by 1,020 organisations, to Rishi Sunak telling the Conservative leader: “The UK has a hunger crisis and your Government is absent"

Ministers are now facing calls to abandon the cap - around £1,666 per month for a couple per month outside London - which one expert said makes 'no logical sense'

Rene Rodriguez, now the CEO of consultancy firm Volentum, and father to six children, was once a part-time door-to-door seller to pay his bills during college

This month a national survey of 100,000 people labelled Kent's Chatham as the 39th worst town in England - but many of the town's residents are now pushing back

The grim revelation came from the Citizens Advice charity, which called on the Government to widen new legislation to include private rental properties in its crackdown on substandard homes

Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to ensure all primary pupils in England get a proper hot meal, as an estimated 800,000 children living in poverty miss out due to eligibility rules

Those who emigrated abroad have not had annual increases in their pensions for 70 years except where Britain has a reciprocal agreement with the country they now live in

The Ashfield MP told the Lib Dems if they sent him a stack of their new poster pointing some of his quotes on the death penalty, food banks and poverty he'd distribute them himself. So they did. Here's what happened

Researchers found work is often not a route out of hardship for families where both parents or a single parent is already working full-time, have long-term sickness or disability, or caring responsibilities

The aristocratic Trevelyan family, which owned six sugar plantations and thousands of slaves on the Caribbean island of Grenada, are going to publicly apologise to the country and use £100,000 to establish a community fund on the poverty-stricken island

Kelly Young, 41, prioritised feeding her children when she lost her job and despite being back in work, is still struggling to manage in a harrowing indictment of how many people are struggling to survive

The seaside town of Withernsea, East Yorkshire, relies on seasonal trade and has seen good times in the past but families have cut trips to the coast as their budgets bite and the town struggles

A 'baby bank' in London is helping desperate parents who cannot afford basic necessities for their children including nappies, clothes and toys. Volunteers expect 2023 to be even busier than 2022

One in four UK children, including 1.3 million primary school children and one million under four, are growing up below the poverty line, a new report has found

In Blackpool’s Bloomfield ward, in the shadow of the town’s football ground, the average life expectancy of men is just 67 years and three months - lower than the new proposed state pension age of 68

Instead of showing any understanding, the energy companies are forcing more and more people on to meters, and obtaining warrants so they can enter homes to fit the devices

Levelling Up plans in South Shields turned to dust and local MP Emma Lewell-Buck was naturally incensed, telling voters: “Freeports bid – rejected; towns fund bid – rejected; two levelling up bids – rejected. Levelling up is just an empty slogan"