<![CDATA[WALCOT FOUNDATION - About poverty]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:31:46 +0000Weebly<![CDATA[THE RISE OF WORKING POVERTY]]>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 08:05:06 GMThttps://www.walcotfoundation.org.uk/about-poverty/the-rise-of-working-povertyIn this May 2021 paper, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) traces "the emergence of a poorly understood social challenge and one which symbolises Britain’s broken ‘social settlement’: the continued rise in working poverty since the beginning of this century." Available as a PDF and in other formats, here.

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]]><![CDATA[UK Poverty data 2019/20]]>Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:54:01 GMThttps://www.walcotfoundation.org.uk/about-poverty/uk-poverty-data-201920The Joseph Rowntree Foundation continues to be one of the most reliable sources of data and analysis on UK poverty. Their UK poverty 2019/20 report can be accesed via their site, here.
It’s just not right that 14 million people are locked into poverty in the UK – that’s more than one in five of the population (22%). Those 14 million are made up of eight million working-age adults, four million children and two million pensioners. At times during the last 20 years, the UK dramatically reduced poverty among people who had traditionally been most at risk – pensioners and children – but this progress has begun to unravel...
]]><![CDATA[FullFact UK - guide to facts and FIGURES]]>Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:00:00 GMThttps://www.walcotfoundation.org.uk/about-poverty/fullfact-uk-guide-to-facts-and-figures"Being in poverty means different things to different people. That’s one of the reasons we have so many possible ways of measuring it in the UK. So one of the most valuable questions to ask anyone who makes claims on this topic is: what do you mean by poverty?"

Full Fact is the UK's independent fact checking charity. See their work on UK poverty facts.

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