ThriveLDN have released a report ‘Mental Health and Wellbeing Support for Displaced and Crisis-Affected Communities: A Review’

Centre for Young Lives’ annual report ‘State of the Nation: Identifying Vulnerable Children and Young People and Supporting Them to Thrive’ has been published.

New Economics Foundation have produced a new briefing ‘The Universal Family Childcare Promise Guaranteeing support for parents and children’

The Department for Education have released the annual statistics on government funded early education and childcare and the Early Years Alliance have written two articles analysing them:

• Wealthier families more likely to benefit from government-funded hours than most disadvantaged families, new analysis reveals
• DfE statistics show fall in early years place take-up among disadvantaged families

Child Poverty Action Group have published the results of their research on the costs of the summer holidays

Coram Family and Childcare have published their annual Holiday Childcare Survey

CPAG & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health have produced a briefing ‘Child poverty on the front line of the NHS’

The DWP have released the latest breakdown of those Universal Credit Claimants affected by the 2 Child Limit and CPAG and partner organistions have carried out some very useful analysis of it here.

CAP UK have released two blogs:

• Everything you need to know about free breakfast clubs
• Where kids eat for free: summer holidays 2025

NAVCA have produced a summary of ‘What the 10 Year Health Plan means for the voluntary sector’

Datawise, Superhighways and HEAR Network have been exploring how to make accessing and interrogating VCSE sector data as easy as possible

CPAG & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health have produced a briefing ‘Child poverty on the front line of the NHS’

The Guardian have reported ‘The right to an education, health and care plan must be retained – Jane Asher, Carrie Grant, Chris Packham, Anna Bird, Fazilet Hadi, Sally Phillips, Jon Sparkes and 100 others call on the government not to remove the right to an EHCP from children attending mainstream schools

Trust for London have released the latest data on London borough-level poverty (updated 2025) and also a new report called ‘A Minimum Income Standard for London 2024’ which shows half of London’s children are growing up without enough for a basic standard of living, this research shows.

The Department for Education have published ‘Giving every child the best start in life’ a strategy for improving child development

Single Homeless Project have produced a new report: ‘How do we sleep at night: women’s rough sleeping census 2024 report’

The Resolution Foundation have produced two reports:

• The bare necessities – Unpacking the rising cost of essentials for low-to-middle income Britain
• Low Pay Britain 2025

The Children’s Commissioner has published a report ‘Growing up in a low-income family: Children’s experiences ‘

Age UK London have published a new report highlighting the mounting pressures facing older Londoners, with many struggling financially, facing digital exclusion, navigating the increasing costs of housing and home maintenance, and dealing with the mental health toll of financial insecurity.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s new report: ‘Talking about wealth inequality’ was published earlier this month.

Resolution Foundation have published a new report: ‘The Living Standards Outlook 2025′

Changing Realities have published two reports:

• A further study on childcare for parents and carers on a low income, “It feels like the system is stacked against us”:
• Getting the child poverty strategy we need: a co-produced agenda for change

Action for Children have written an article called ‘Those in power need to listen to children and young people. We’re the key to their future’

Christians Against Poverty have written a submission to the 2025 Low Pay Commission Consultation

House of Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has published the Government’s response to its report on Children in Temporary Accommodation.

Shared Health Foundation have produced a report about Children living in Temporary Accommodation

Liv, a Youth Ambassador for the End Child Poverty Coalition has written this blog to highlight what the expansion of Free School Meals eligibility means to her, and other young people.

UNICEF UK launched a new report: ‘Held back from the start: the impact of deprivation on early childhood’

Fabian Society have produced a proposed strategy called ‘First steps: An ambitious strategy to tackle early-years poverty with public consent’

Family Fund have released their ‘The Cost of Caring 2025’ report

Christians Against Poverty have released several reports:

• Client report 2025: No time to lose
• Child Poverty – Insights into the real challenges families across the UK are facing.
• The inequality of poverty – The varying risks of financial hardship individuals face due to their protected characteristics. 
• Employment – The role of employment in addressing UK poverty 

Trust for London have released analysis of the latest London poverty figures

Citizens UK and Trust for London’s new report reveals the dire state of temporary accommodation in the UK.

End Child Poverty with the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University, have published data on the number of children living in poverty, in each Westminster Constituency and Local Authority across the UK.

Save the Children have written an article in the New Statesman called Those in power need to listen to children and young people. We’re the key to their future’

Public First has produced some research showing their is ‘widespread public support for government action to reduce child poverty’ and CPAG have done some analysis of what it shows

Trussell have released their latest food bank usage stats

CPAG have written a response to the proposed changes to sickness and disability benefits

Impact on Urban Health have written an article in the New Statesman called Inside the hidden homeless crisis

The Resolution Foundation has produced a report which is an assessment of the rumoured options for easing the two-child limit

Young Roots have released a video called Like Starting Life from Scratch

Child Poverty Action Group have released a report called ‘The minimum cost of education in the UK’ and have produced a summary  here.

NCVO have produced a report called ‘The Power of Small’ on the impact of small charities.

Home-Start London have produced a report called ‘Holding it Together – Money worries and emotional strain’ where London families share their experiences.

Trust for London have produced an analysis of ‘London’s problem with in-work poverty’.

St Vincent de Paul Society have released a report called ‘The hidden crisis of in-work poverty – a frontline perspective’

Ambitious about Autism have released a report called ‘Autism in Education Report’

Save Our Local Safety Net campaign group have published the findings of their inquiry on the future of local welfare and crisis support.

Quaker Social Action’s Lindesay Mace spoke out about ending funeral poverty for ‘The Man with the Plan’

Resolve Poverty have produced a report called ‘Mission Critical: The role of English regions and localities in a whole-system approach to tackling poverty’

Shelter has published analysis projecting that 206,000 children could be in temporary accommodation, a 26% increase, by the end of this Parliament.

Trussell has published the second and final report from its research exploring the scale and cost of hunger and hardship in the UK: ‘The Cost of Hunger and Hardship’

On the Record have produced a new podcast on the Islington nursery strike – out now!

The Resolution Foundation have published a briefing report called ‘Saving Penalties – Reforming the capital rules in Universal Credit’

The Big Issue have released an article called ‘Save tens of billions in public money by ending hunger – not slashing benefits, government told’

Child Poverty Action Group and other children’s and anti-poverty charities have published a letter warning the PM on two-child limit . The letter and reaction to it were written up in a Guardian article here.