Living standards are set to return to the depths experienced during the cost-of-living crisis by the end of this parliament, ...

Responding to the Chancellor’s Budget, Paul Kissack, Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said: “Today’s actions alone won’t be enough to fix the foundations for millions who struggle ...

Amplifying the voices of people with lived experience of poverty is critical to finding policy solutions to reduce poverty and increase equality. Support for community participation in anti-poverty ...

The Budget is the perfect opportunity for the Chancellor to prevent renters from being pushed deeper into poverty by permanently re-linking frozen housing benefits to private rents. Unless the ...

During the media rounds following her speech on 23 September, the Chancellor repeated a variant of one particular phrase over and again: "the focus of the budget in October will be to protect living ...

New research is filling the evidence gap around why people are unpaid carers, and building understanding of their essential role alongside paid care services. These are the words of unpaid carers.

Debt deductions: Amounts deducted to repay debts, mostly to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) but also to other government entities or third-party creditors. For example, ‘advance payment’ ...

Over 100 years ago Joseph Rowntree created us to provide housing in communities and to tackle the root causes of the major social problems afflicting the UK. We continue to draw inspiration from our ...

Not enough food. Can’t heat the house. No bed. Can’t pay the rent. Can’t afford the bus fare to go into town. Can’t afford to have a friend over for tea. Living in fear of the washing machine or ...

We are an independent social change organisation, working to support and speed up the transition to a more equitable and just future, free from poverty, where people and planet can flourish. JRF ...

One of the greatest challenges we face is the way we’ve come to see our current economic and social models as fixed, even as they are failing us and the planet. We’re living through times of hardship ...