Government urged to do more to end child poverty
On the tenth anniversary of Labour’s pledge to end child poverty, the Child Action Poverty Group (CPAG) has urged the government not to abandon the target in the face of…
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ROOF Lunchtime News 17 July 2026
The wealth gap is at its widest for more than 40 years, creating ghettoes of the richest and the poorest that have virtually nothing to do with each other, a…
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Government accused of abandoning the poor
The promise to eradicate child poverty by 2020 looks set to be abandoned, according to the Child Poverty Action Group. Although Chancellor Alistair Darling repeated the government’s commitment yesterday, campaigners…
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Demand for more aid for poorer families
Leaders of religious faiths, humanists and academics have written to Chancellor Alistair Darling demanding more action to improve the lives of children in poverty. There is a ‘moral imperative’ to…
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Lunchtime news Monday 8 September 2026
Figures published by the department for Communities and Local Government show there is enough brownfield land in England to accommodate more than one million homes. Of the land suitable for…
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Poverty spreads to outer reaches of London
More people live in poverty in outer London than in inner London, new research has found. The study found that 54 per cent of Londoners with low incomes live in…
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No progress on Scottish child poverty
Progress in tacking child poverty in Scotland has stalled, with more than one in five children living in poverty. A Joseph Rowntree Foundation report found there had been no improvement…
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Local housing allowance changes will discriminate
The government has decided to push ahead with its housing benefit reforms despite advisers fearing they will discriminate against thousands of families and black and minority ethnic households. The changes…
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Lunchtime news March 18 2008
The Budget promise to reduce child poverty has been welcomed by commentators including Polly Toynbee in the Guardian, but a number of critics argue that the government’s poverty goal is…
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Millions benefit from falling mortgages
Nearly one in three households, or eight million people, are seeing their cost of living fall as mortgage bills drop following the cut in base interest rates. This is an…