The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

10,000 homes in Ireland to get help with energy bills as €2.5m fund is launched

Fuel poverty, or energy poverty, is defined as households spending more than 10 per cent of their net income on energy, excluding motor fuel. It impacts thousands of Irish households.

Irish Mirror · Mar 15, 2023

Frontrunners in SNP leadership race vow to eradicate poverty

Independence vote trails tackling poverty and improving NHS in candidates’ policy priorities at BBC leadership debate

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2023

New book says people living in rural Northumberland failed by Government

Rural Poverty Today, which involves professor Mark Shucksmith from Newcastle University, examined the challenges faced by those in poverty in the North Tyne Valley

Chronicle Live · Mar 14, 2023

Evelyn de Morgan, The Gold Drawings at Leighton House review: a bijou show but burnished to brilliance

It’s just one room of works on paper but this exhibition is rich and intriguing

Evening Standard · Mar 13, 2023

Scots lose out on £11.5million a month in Universal Credit payments due to 'poverty tax'

EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government deducted £11.5million from 194,300 Scottish households on Universal Credit in November 2022.

Daily Record · Mar 13, 2023

Mancunians are dying too soon... this is the bold - and risky - plan for change

EXCLUSIVE: Manchester's building boom belies the reality of many people living in poverty in the city neighbourhoods. There is a chasm in life expectancy depending on where you live in Manchester and leaders want to change that, Helena Vesty reports

Manchester Evening News · Mar 12, 2023

Jeremy Hunt urged to wipe UK’s energy bill debts – set to rise to £3bn

Exclusive: Britain’s gas and electricty debts set to soar by hundreds of millions in April

The Independent UK · Mar 12, 2023

Cross-party MPs call on Jeremy Hunt to extend free school meals lifeline to families

A cross-party group of MPs has written to the Chancellor calling on the Government to provide the benefit for all primary school pupils in England, which the Mirror and National Education Union are fighting for, in line with promises in Wales and Scotland.

Daily Mirror · Mar 12, 2023

Perrottet’s future fund for children risks increasing poverty divide, social advocates say

Benefit will depend on how much parents can afford to contribute, with wealthier families getting ‘an extra leg up’, critics say

The Guardian - AU · Mar 12, 2023

Groups in plea to SNP to keep child poverty a top Holyrood priority

MORE than 70 charities, unions, faith groups, health professionals and social policy experts have joined forces to urge the next SNP leader to keep…

The National (Scotland) · Mar 12, 2023