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Poverty Social Exclusion defining, measuring and tackling poverty

 United Kingdom
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Labour launches child poverty strategy but hints costly welfare system needs reform theguardian.com/politics/202…

Labour launches child poverty strategy but hints costly welfare system has to change

Work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden says more must be done to lift people out of hardship and help them into work

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More than $70tn of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists warn theguardian.com/inequality/2…

More than $70tn of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists warn

Expert panel says report on gap in global wealth between rich and poor highlights need for intervention by G20

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Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households theguardian.com/society/2025…

Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households

New official measures show levelling up attempts have failed to shift high levels of deprivation

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UK poverty crisis as 500,000 children in homes trapped in benefit debt cycle independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…

UK poverty crisis as 500,000 children in homes trapped in benefit debt cycle

Exclusive: Tens of thousands of families are forced to take out loans to cover the five-week wait until their first universal credit payment – but many struggle to pay it back

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Disabled children facing ‘national crisis’ as thousands wait months for wheelchairs independent.co.uk/news/healt…

Disabled children facing ‘national crisis’ as thousands wait months for wheelchairs

‘National crisis’ as the only charity providing specialist children’s wheelchair services, forced to close to new referrals

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Raising kids in poverty: The UK’s ‘inhumane’ two child limit | Benefits | The Guardian theguardian.com/society/vide…

Raising kids in poverty: The UK’s ‘inhumane’ two-child limit

Child poverty in the UK is now at record levels, with 4.5 million kids living in poverty. One of the biggest drivers of this is the controversial two-child limit, which caps universal credit and tax...

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Britain’s hunger crisis laid bare as 14 million going without food independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…

Britain’s hunger crisis laid bare as 14 million going without food

More than 1 in 4 children are living in homes where people are forced to skip or cut back on meals because of financial concerns, as campaigners warn the crisis should ‘shame the government to its...

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Gender pension gap equates to £7,600 a year, say union leaders theguardian.com/world/2025/a…

Gender gap means retired women ‘have four months a year with no pension’

Income inequality means women in effect stop receiving a pension from 21 August, union leaders say

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Despite all our progress, poverty in the UK is worse than 50 years ago independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…

Despite all our progress, poverty in the UK is worse than 50 years ago

For all the progress we’ve made, the more visible forms of poverty have actually increased. And, in 2025, destitution – going without two of seven essentials like food, toiletries or shelter – is...

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Rising food prices driven by climate crisis threaten world’s poorest, report finds theguardian.com/business/202…

Rising food prices driven by climate crisis threaten world’s poorest, report finds

High cost of staples due to extreme weather could lead to more malnutrition, political upheaval and social unrest

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Again and again, we are shocked by the treatment of learning-disabled people. Yet we never learn from the past John Harris theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Again and again, we are shocked by the treatment of learning-disabled people. Yet we never learn...

A landmark book exposes the history of loathing that underpins scandals like Winterbourne View. It has received next to no attention, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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‘It’s very personal to me’: Darren Jones on his £500m plan to fight child poverty theguardian.com/politics/202…

‘It’s very personal to me’: Darren Jones on his £500m plan to fight child poverty

Treasury chief secretary says he wants to emulate New Labour support for community groups that changed his life

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Welfare bill will now lift 50,000 out of poverty after U-turns, assessment finds theguardian.com/society/2025…

Welfare bill will now lift 50,000 out of poverty after U-turns, assessment finds

Revised bill passed after UK government rowed back on cuts will mean fewer rather than more people in relative poverty in 2030

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One in four young people in England have mental health condition, NHS survey finds | Mental health | The Guardian
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The Labour welfare rebels are right. This hounding of disabled people will damage the party for years to come theguardian.com/commentisfre…

The Labour welfare rebels are right. This hounding of disabled people will damage the party for...

Opposition is mounting and No 10 is preparing a raft of concessions. But whatever happens next, the moral stain will remain, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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No 10 delays child poverty strategy with tens of thousands more facing hardship theguardian.com/society/2025…

No 10 delays child poverty strategy with tens of thousands more facing hardship

Exclusive: Flagship policy put back until at least autumn amid fears cost of removing two-child benefit cap will outweigh political benefit

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Child poverty predicted to rise in most of UK except Scotland theguardian.com/society/2025…

Child poverty predicted to rise in most of UK except Scotland

Joseph Rowntree Foundation calls for benefits changes amid pressure on Labour to scrap two-child benefit cap

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One million elderly people skipping meals amid winter fuel benefit crisis theguardian.com/politics/202…

One million elderly people skipping meals amid winter fuel benefit crisis

The row over Labour’s cuts to pensioners’ energy payments is about to flare up again after damning new research

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‘Child poverty has got a lot worse’: outgoing charity boss lambasts Tory failures and social media giants theguardian.com/society/2024…

‘Child poverty has got a lot worse’: outgoing charity boss lambasts Tory failures and social media...

Peter Wanless of the NSPCC calls for more preventive action on child poverty, a ban on ‘morally repugnant’ smacking and favours guardrails online rather than bans

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More than 16 million people in poverty, report finds – with deprivation at highest level in decades bigissue.com/news/social-jus…

More than 16 million people in poverty, report finds – with deprivation at highest level in decades

A third of children in the UK are living in poverty, with deprivation at the highest level since the start of the 21st century.

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