More than 4.2 million children in the UK are growing up in poverty, a number that has been rising over the last decade and is forecast to grow even further. Failure to disrupt and reverse this trend will have profound impacts on individual life chances, have intergenerational effects and exacerbate structural racialised inequalities.
06
Dec
Dec
This report (which is funded by abrdn Financial Fairness Trust) looks at people’s experiences with consumer credit, including credit cards and buy-now-pay-later payments, during the cost of living crisis.
It shows that 5.2m people across the UK are behind on consumer credit payments, an increase of 1.5m since November 2022.
04
Dec
Dec
This briefing explains UK poverty statistics, including historical trends and forecasts, and poverty by employment, tenure, ethnicity, disability and region.
04
Dec
Dec
The nation’s health and care needs are changing. As we continue to live longer, there is a higher prevalence of long-term health conditions due to various lifestyle factors which are also being further impacted by increasing health inequalities. Waiting times for treatments have been lengthened due
to the COVID-19 backlog and NHS costs to deliver care are continuing to rise.
23
Nov
Nov
This briefing paper provides an overview of the UK Government’s policies to support care leavers.
22
Nov
Nov
Reform has provided policy support for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods, a cross-party group of MPs and Peers that is dedicated to improving conditions and opportunities for people living in areas which face a combination of economic deprivation and insufficient social infrastructure.
21
Nov
Nov
The Government intends to make ‘no DSS’ and ‘no kids’ requirements illegal in the private rented sector. This paper explains the issues behind these practices.
20
Nov
Nov
£2.3 billion withdrawn in grants support over the last decade, preventing the repair of 600,000 homes and
unnecessarily endangering the lives of over a million people.
17
Nov
Nov
These statistics relate to the employment of working-age (aged 16 to 64) disabled people in the UK. They provided context for the government’s goal to see one million more disabled people in work between 2017 and 2027 which was met in 2022.
16
Nov
Nov
Workplace expert Acas has today launched a consultation on its new draft statutory Code of Practice on handling requests for a predictable working pattern.
Recent years have seen changing patterns of work and an increase in concerns about the impact that an unpredictable working pattern can have on some workers’ ability to generate a reliable income and to manage their work-life balance.