Adding a protected minimum floor to Universal Credit and removing the two-child limit will reverse declining living standards for families with children and get child poverty falling. New analysis ...

Shān Nicholas joined the JRF-JRHT group in October 2025. She leads the executive team and works with the board of trustees to ensure the group does not stand still while a permanent CEO is recruited.

Rosie is a Senior Policy Adviser at JRF, where she leads our housing and land work. She previously worked on consumer and housing policy at Citizens Advice. Before working in policy, Rosie worked in ...

Erinch is JRF's Associate Director for Investment. He leads the work to invest JRF's endowment in support of an equitable and just future. Previously, Erinch was the business & enterprise lead at ...

More than 1 in 5 Scots are currently living in poverty, struggling to survive on incomes that fall below what they need. This includes 1in every 4 children in Scotland. Despite the severity of the ...

Building connections, through convening organisations with both tech and social/environmental missions, is seen as beneficial. Such collaborations could set agendas outside the commercial influence of ...

This report, from the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), is the 12th in a series monitoring the number of people living beneath the Minimum Income Standard in the UK. It focuses on 3 groups ...

People going without essentials piles pressure on primary schools and GP surgeries, diverting resources and adding to workloads. We need an urgent action plan for hardship.

This year’s Poverty in Scotland paints a bleak picture of a society in crisis. It demands action from all tiers of government to avert the worst of this crisis, and time is short.

This report shows that poverty is both a cause and an effect of SEND and makes a series of recommendations, including: Policy-makers and school and early years leaders should prioritise SEND. Staff in ...