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.

Some praised it for bringing half a million kids out of poverty but others fear it is not ambitious enough.

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

LONDON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Child income poverty rates in the United Kingdom were the highest among the world's richest countries, a report by U.N. children's agency UNICEF said, ranking bottom of the ...

With over 4.5 million children living in poverty, the UK faces a growing crisis that affects not just basic needs but the mental well-being and future opportunities of its youngest citizens. As of ...

A record 3.1 million emergency food parcels have been handed out by a leading UK charity's food banks in just a year, according to latest figures. Of the food parcels distributed by the Trussell Trust ...

Research Fellow in Gender Inequality in Health and Menstruation, Birmingham City University Despite the UK being one of the most developed countries in the world, there are still thousands of people ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...

Cuts to benefits this week in the UK are expected to push hundreds of thousands of children into poverty, and the effect this will have on their health is still unknown. While there is substantial ...

In a Sunday interview with The Guardian, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier De Schutter stated that the poverty levels in the UK are “simply not acceptable” and that the ...

Nearly half of the world’s population currently lives in poverty, defined as income of less than US $2 per day, including one billion children. Of those living in poverty, over 800 million people live ...