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.

Superhighways: have released their new manual outlining the list of training opportunities they offer

Trust for London have carried out an analysis ‘Are we heading for a London without children?’

CPAG have produced two briefings:

• Short briefing on Pathways to Work green paper
• New costings: scrapping two-child limit is ‘by far’ most cost-effective way to cut child poverty

End Child Poverty have looked at new data [which shows] scrapping the two child limit lifts children out of poverty and could boost local economies

Centre for London have published a report Arts for All: Tackling Barriers to Arts and Cultural Participation in London

Gingerbread have written a blog introducing their single-parent campaigners.

In their most recent newsletter South West Law Centre discusses how low rates of #benefits are contributing to indebtedness and poverty

Andrew Harrop from Public First has written an article ‘Why child poverty went up and how to bring it down’ first published in Prospect Magazine.

New JRF modelling shows the scale of the assault on living standards for poorest who are set to see incomes fall twice as fast by end of Parliament

Power2 have released a video where they spoke to Emma Webb, Reception Teacher and Phase Lead at Gainsborough Primary School, about the support provided by our Power2 Thrive programme and the impact it had on the young children.

The Resolution Foundation have produced a report called  ‘Minimum wage, maximum pressure’

The Mayor of London, London Lifelines, Works4U and various other partners have worked together to establish the The London Vision for Volunteering

CPAG have responded to the new ‘Child poverty statistics – new record high and further breakdowns’