A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation sets out the nature of poverty in the UK in the run-up to 2024’s General Election. It also sets out the scale of action necessary for the Government to deliver the change it has promised.
Using their cost of living tracker, the unacceptably high levels of poverty they referred to in last year’s report are seen to persist, with economic security out of reach for millions of people. This is an urgent problem that the new Government needs to address.
Amongst their findings they note that children have consistently had the highest poverty rates (30% versus 21% for the whole population), and larger families with 3 or more children have consistently faced a higher rate of poverty (45% of children in large families were in poverty in 2022/23).
Read the report – and its recommendations – on their website, here.
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