The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Deep dive into poverty data reveals that policies enabling more housing – in places where people want to live – would improve housing affordability and make more choices possible.

The event this year celebrated the work of teachers, inventors and poverty campaigners.

THE “just transition” away from oil and gas will have failed if Scots are still living in fuel poverty in the years ahead, the Government…

When you’re hungry, it is difficult to learn. But a special investigation by the Evening Standard and the Independent has found an alarming and growing food crisis among children who live in poverty but are not eligible for free school meals.

There are lots of ways to explain our energy crisis. One is to use an analogy. Imagine a dairy farm serving a distant island’s villages has an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. Half the cows have to be slaughtered. Milk production halves. The milk price doubles. As milk prices…

South Ayrshire Council's depute leader admitted he had never heard the term during a discussion on child poverty.

Special Investigation: Headteachers and youth workers highlight an increasing hunger crisis among families living in poverty but who are not eligible for free school meals

As the cost of living crisis worsens, some families are being pushed to the limit. David Cohen hears about pupils stealing from school canteens and a mother of three caught with a loaf under her coat

Audit Scotland has called on the Scottish Government to work "quickly" with partners to address the issue