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’

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