Although there has been a step change in the participation of women in the UK labour market, gender pay inequality remains, starting at the point that women become mothers. Many families in the UK ...

Child poverty in Scotland is too high, with 1 in 4 children in relative poverty after housing costs (AHC). In 2016, the Scottish Parliament unanimously agreed to set the Child Poverty Reduction ...

Average couple with two primary-aged children in very deep poverty are over £1,000 a month away from 'the poverty line' A combination of lack of work, high housing costs and insufficient social ...

tightening eligibility for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) scrapping the Work Capability Assessment and making PIP the gateway to receiving the Universal Credit (UC) health element halving the ...

The latest webinar in our Talking about Homes series explored how to frame our communications so that we boost community support for building homes.

JRF are accelerating a fair transition to net zero and putting low-income households at the heart of climate action. Our climate change work is designed to accelerate the transition to net zero while ...

Sam is a Lead Analyst, undertaking analysis for JRF’s work on social security, communities and place, and the wider economy. Sam was previously a Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation, ...

Relative and absolute poverty can be presented before and after housing costs (these include rent or mortgage interest, buildings insurance and water rates) and are presented after direct taxes and ...

Cassandra leads on our movement effectiveness programme, engaging with funders, infrastructure organisations, grassroots activists and non-profit organisations to support movements for change.

Sharing our learning from past and present work to support the ongoing evolvement of more equitable, democratic and justice led approaches to social change. Our work in this area exists to continually ...

Jaspal is an Investment Portfolio Manager at JRF. His principal activity is to manage the foundation’s investment portfolio of approximately £500 million. Prior to joining JRF, Jaspal was Head of ...

Families with no assets can be one broken boiler or car breakdown away from crisis and poverty. This is not a fringe group. Recent estimates suggest that around a quarter of the adult population has ...