The Big Issue have written an article ‘End two-child limit on benefits to lift 600,000 kids out of poverty, Labour told: ‘We’re in a crisis’

Action for Children have published their ‘Paying the Price’ report which sets out research commissioned from Public First to model policy scenarios for reaching a set of ambitious child poverty reduction goals.

Trust for London’s chief executive Manny Hothi has written an article called ‘Social justice feels stuck – how can we fix it?’

Trussell have written an article called ‘Almost one in five people receiving Universal Credit and disability benefits used a food bank in the last month’

CPAG have written two articles:

• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill – A welcome start
• Cuts to disability benefits would undermine government plans to tackle child poverty, warns charity

Z2K have written a commentary giving their ‘View on the Health & Disability Benefits Green Paper ‘ 

Resolve Poverty released a conference bulletin ahead of their event last week, full of informative articles.

Resource for London and London Plus have launched a London Calling, a new website sharing events, training and funding opportunities for London’s charities, CICs and social enterprises with the aim of connecting and supporting thousands of London-based charities.

CPAG have released a report called ‘Building Blocks: delivering a child poverty strategy’

Toynbee Hall have published “The crisis makes us more alone”: A Participatory Action Research investigation into emotional support for young people in the context of the cost-of-living crisis

Dr. Sara Reis from UK Women’s Budget Group has shared the slides from her presentation in February called Women’s and Children’s Poverty: Making the Links

Resolve Poverty have released an article by Sophie Padgett from Trussell about a vision is for a UK without the need for food banks

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has published its concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Big Issue has released an article on the report and you can also read about the experiences of members of the GRIPP project when they went to give evidence to the Committee last month here.

Just Fair have written an article looking at the work they’ve been doing in London to break down barriers to using human rights based approaches

Raising the Nation Play Commission has done an inquiry into why children are playing less in England which calls on the Government to increase and ringfence school playtime

London Councils has produced an article called ‘Continued Drop in School Places Demand Creates Impossible Choice’

CYMPHC have released a report called ‘A Step Towards Change – Members perspectives on government policies on children and young people’s mental health’

The Resolution Foundation has produced a briefing note ‘Turning the tide – What it will take to reduce child poverty in the UK’

KIDS gave evidence to Parliament about how to solve the SEND crisis

Ambition Aspire Achieve have released a new video about their work called ‘Making a Difference: Our Work with Children & Young People’

Trussell have produced a report called ‘A more resilient future: Rebuilding discretionary crisis support in England’

CYPMHC, Centre for Mental Health, the Centre for Young Lives, and YoungMinds have launched their new Future Minds campaign with a new report ‘Future Minds: Why investing in children’s mental health will unlock economic growth ‘

The Resolution Foundation has produced an article called ‘What’s up? – Five key takeaways from new data on household wealth on the eve of the cost of living crisis’

Policy in Practice has produced an article called ‘The Fraud, Error and Recovery Bill: A fresh approach to fraud or fuel for stigma?’ looking at the Government’s plans to recover benefit fraud overpayments by directly accessing people’s bank accounts and  Z2K have written a commentary ‘The Fraud, Error and Debt Bill charts a risky path’

Resolve Poverty have released 2 articles:

• The new national Child Poverty Strategy must empower localities and regions to play their part
• How poverty affects the body

Good Growth Foundation have produced an analysis called ‘Mind The Growth Gap – What politicians are missing when it comes to growth’

Joseph Rowntree Foundation have released UK Poverty 2025: the essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK

Trust for London have released two articles:

• Sustain – Lessons from two decades of campaigning on food poverty
• London’s challenges in 2025 – and how to tackle them

The London Housing Panel have released a ‘Statement on Temporary Accommodation’

Gingerbread have some advice for parents that are struggling in January

Quaker Social Action (which hosts 4in10) have released their latest impact report

KCL and others have shared this presentation on numbers of households and children trapped in TA by housing-related debt rules

The House of Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee met on 21/1 to take evidence from Minister Rushanara Ali as part of its inquiry into children in temporary accommodation

The Education Policy Institute have produced a report called ‘How can we reduce food poverty for under-fives? Building on recommendations with expert input.’

Changing Realities have written a report of their meeting with the Minister for Employment and the Secretary of State for Education

IFS have produced their Annual report on education spending in England: 2024–25

Trust For London have produced ‘10 charts to help us understand poverty in London in 2025′

Shelter have published a report ‘Homelessness in England 2024’

The Guardian reported on new analysis examining how ‘English councils pay millions to move homeless families out of big cities’

CYMHC have written an article summarising their achievements for 2024

The Resolution Foundation have released two reports:

• Working poverty out, The role of employment and progression in a child poverty strategy
• Housing hurdles, The changing housing circumstances of young people in Britain 

Changing Realities have produced an article ‘A Foot in The Door; One Step Closer to Ending Child Poverty’

Toynbee Hall have released a video to celebrate their 140th anniversary which celebrates the work they have done

Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition have released a recording of a meeting profiling the Child Outcomes and Research Consortium

Child Poverty Action Group have released two articles:

• • ‘Comparing child poverty using the Luxembourg income study’
  • ‘The Cost of a Child in 2024’

Resolve Poverty have produced a commentary on a joint report between the APPG on Poverty and Inequality Joint Report and the APPG on Migration

London Youth have released an article explaining the ‘Government’s Youth Guarantee’

Little Village have produced a report about the reality of Christmas on a low income called ‘London families fear no gifts for kids this Christmas’

Toynbee Hall have released their impact report for 23/24

Local Government Association have released their ‘Vision for children, young people and families’

UCL have produced a report about how ‘Lack of play in temporary accommodation could affect children’s development’

Joseph Rowntree Foundation have published a new report ‘Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani households at higher risk of very deep, long-term poverty’

Unicef have produced a new report called ‘Opening Doors: Access to early childhood services for families impacted by poverty in the UK’

Education Policy Institute have released a report called ‘How can we reduce food poverty for under-fives?’

Trust for London have produced an analysis asking the question ‘Do different ways of measuring poverty paint the same picture of what’s happening in London?’

CPAG and Impact of Urban Health have produced a report called ‘More than a meal – An independent evaluation of universal primary free school meals for children in London’

Gingerbread have:

• produced a video on ‘becoming a single parent’ 
• produced a report called ‘Fix the CMS‘ which summarises the findings from research funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which explored separated parents’ experiences of child maintenance and the Child Maintenance Service (CMS)