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 ...

As a member of the Social Investment team at JRF, Lena leads on investments across care, work, and place-based initiatives.

As Portfolio Operations Manager in the Social Investment team at JRF, Dominika manages operational activities and supports process improvements.

Hannah joined JRF in June 2025 as Director of People, leading the development and delivery of our People Strategy and managing HR activity including recruitment, reward, HR policy and learning and ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

This study, the third in the Destitution in the UK series, reveals that even before the COVID-19 outbreak destitution was rapidly growing in scale and intensity. Since 2017 many more households, ...

This research explores why the links between special educational needs and disability (SEND) and poverty are so strong.