After nearly two years of collaboration, Storythings and JRF are launching Futures in Draft — a new platform sharing the people and stories transforming our tomorrow.

Hardship is intensifying in our country. Around 6 million people face very deep poverty 1, nearly 1.5 million more than 20 years ago. This should concern us all, as going without essentials like ...

Low pay in the care sector is contributing to high staff turnover and costing providers, and users, billions of pounds.

Council Tax in Scotland is outdated, regressive and desperately in need of reform. The next Scottish Government must take bold action. Council Tax a key way to reduce poverty Council Tax reform is ...

Our latest data charts show clear differences in poverty rates across age groups, with children and people in lone-parent families at highest risk.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Most people in poverty are in working families. Almost half of all workers have experienced low pay in the last 5 years. We cannot rely on work alone to shift the dial on child poverty. It is time for ...

The Minimum Income Standard (MIS) provides a vision of the living standards that we as a society agree everyone in the UK should be able to achieve. This latest update sets out what households need to ...

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 ...

This report shows the current state of poverty in Scotland. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic Scotland has blighted by poverty with a million people, including a quarter of a million children, trapped ...