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Child poverty

5 November 2008

Labour bashes lone parents

Lone parents need decent wages and benefits, photo by Paul Mattsson

Lone parents need decent wages and benefits, photo by Paul Mattsson

FROM 24 November lone parents claiming benefits for the first time, whose youngest or only child is 12 or over will no longer be able to claim income support, writes Eleanor Donne.

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6 December 2007

Child poverty rises

THE LATEST report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that 200,000 more children were living in poverty in 2005-6 than the year before...

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11 October 2007

Any spare cash?

Retired and insolvent: DISPOSABLE INCOME, the amount of money a household has available to spend after all the must-pay bills – taxes, utility bills, food, transport, clothing, communication, TV licence fees, insurance and housing – has reached its...

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4 April 2007

Children suffer in low pay Britain

'Shock - child poverty increases' shouted the headlines last week. The figures are shocking; last year there were 200,000 more children living in poverty...

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22 February 2007

Children at the sharp end of British capitalism

Unicef report: A SHOCK report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says that children in Britain have the lowest levels of well-being in the developed world...

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