Amid grief, rage and division, there are seeds of hope and repair to be found in the North East. But they will not flourish if we stay silent. The North East (NE) of England today feels on edge and ...

The launch of this year's independent state of the nation report which sets out the nature and scale of poverty in Northern Ireland.

The JRF ‘Exploring Stigma and Poverty’ design team met in January 2023 to explore how stigma plays out in society and impacts poverty in the UK. In this blog post Hal Khanom, Head of Economic ...

The Stigma Free Futures Design team is a diverse group of people, with lived and learned experience of the issue we’re working to change. Through either our professional or personal lives, and mainly, ...

Our Grassroots Poverty Action Group (GPAG) has been meeting throughout 2021 to inform our UK Poverty report. One of the key issues members have shared is stigma, and how stereotypes and prejudice ...

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.

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 ...

More than 1 in 5 Scots are currently living in poverty, struggling to survive on incomes that fall below what they need. This includes 1in every 4 children in Scotland. Despite the severity of the ...

Building connections, through convening organisations with both tech and social/environmental missions, is seen as beneficial. Such collaborations could set agendas outside the commercial influence of ...

Inequalities Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities face in accessing affordable and secure homes are rooted in structural injustices that are just not right, and must change. During the ...

Poverty levels for people in minority ethnic communities in Scotland are double the national average, and rising. Analysis in this briefing highlights several areas that are contributing to this ...

This year’s State of the Nation report looks in detail at whether work is working for people in Scotland. The headline poverty statistics in Scotland are reasonably easy to remember, partly because ...