A year into the new Labour Government, key hardship measures show no improvement - over 7 million low-income families are ...

Low-income families are no better off one year after Labour's election victory, new research finds. The situation is particularly worrying for larger families, with today (Thursday 10 July) also ...

A national care strategy must put unpaid carers at its centre, supporting their choice to care or not through well-funded services, and valuing their skills to improve care quality.

This year our report asks how effective social security is at reducing poverty and advancing equality in Scotland.

JRF is calling on the Government to immediately stop deducting debt repayments from benefits at unaffordable rates, and to strengthen our social security safety net so that people aren’t forced to ...

Why and how do non-profit and grassroots organisations engage with generative AI tools, and the broader AI debate?

The Minimum Income Standard (MIS) provides a vision of the living standards that we as a society agree everyone in the UK should be able to achieve. This latest update sets out what households need to ...

Primary schools and GP surgeries are staggering under the weight of hardship. Anyone serious about improving them needs an urgent action plan for tackling hardship.

We look at 3 ways that buying private homes for social ownership can play a role in shaping the housing market and growing new, more equitable housing models.

This report shows the current state of poverty in Scotland. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic Scotland has blighted by poverty with a million people, including a quarter of a million children, trapped ...

As a society we believe that working families should have a decent standard of living, yet one in eight workers now live in poverty. Building on recent successes in the labour market can turn the tide ...