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Low pay in the care sector is contributing to high staff turnover and costing providers, and users, billions of pounds.

Since 2013, this report has tracked the number of people in the UK living below the Minimum Income Standard (MIS), a public-defined benchmark for a dignified minimum standard of living. It examines ...

Council Tax in Scotland is outdated, regressive and desperately in need of reform. The next Scottish Government must take bold action. Council Tax a key way to reduce poverty Council Tax reform is ...

Our latest data charts show clear differences in poverty rates across age groups, with children and people in lone-parent families at highest risk.

People going without essentials piles pressure on primary schools and GP surgeries, diverting resources and adding to workloads. We need an urgent action plan for hardship.

Most people in poverty are in working families. Almost half of all workers have experienced low pay in the last 5 years. We cannot rely on work alone to shift the dial on child poverty. It is time for ...

This report, from the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), is the 12th in a series monitoring the number of people living beneath the Minimum Income Standard in the UK. It focuses on 3 groups ...

International childcare markets Many international childcare systems with significant privately delivered provision and public subsidies include higher controls on public funding, including ensuring ...

It explains Labour’s defeat, the Conservative breakthrough in many traditional Labour areas, and what this reveals about British politics. Key to understanding this are the people struggling to stay ...

This study looks at the shaky foundations of material life for many people, and highlights a worrying increase in the markers of mental ill-health. It examines links between the two, documenting the ...

There has been a shameful increase in the level of destitution in the UK, with a growing number of people struggling to afford to meet their most basic physical needs to stay warm, dry, clean and fed.