News & Reports

Article on how women in England’s poorest areas die younger than in most OECD countries.

An assessment of the governments Equality Impact assessments from 2010-2021.

Have published their research into the ongoing impact of the pandemic, and wider inequalities in services, on disabled children and families.

Have released their report into the children of families living with NRPF growing up in poverty.

Children’s Rights Alliance for England leading a coalition of 30 children’s charities  including Children England, have sent a letter to the Secretary of State for Justice, calling for the Government to abandon its proposals for a Bill of Rights to replace the Human Rights Act.

WAF Angels are a new cleaning company set up with 4in10 members ATEL, to provide decent employment to woman who have childcare responsibilities, little or no working experience in the UK and, with No Recourse to Public Funds. Serving East London, their mission is to remove as many barriers to employment as possible through the creation of ethical employment. They offer both commercial and residential services.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation analysis models the impact of changes in the chancellor’s spring statement.

Statement on the Government’s Inclusive Britain Action Plan. arguing that what is needed is building objectives to advance race equality into all major public policy initiatives, from levelling up, to the National Resilience Strategy, to housing and beyond.

All About Power report on transforming power dynamics, to achieve meaningful solidarity for more effective and more legitimate social change,

Blog on how employers can take action to address in-work poverty

A Shared Interest: The relationships between policymakers and charities. The research examines the views of MPs, councillors and civil servants working across the UK

Shared the evaluation of their Shifting the Dial mental health project working with young black men aged 16 – 25

Social Costs Benefit Analysis of the no recourse to public funds (NRPF) policy in London.

Report on ‘government debt’ the money people find they have to pay back to the DWP as a result of the DWP’s own systems and errors.

Report responding to the Levelling Up White paper. ”Levelling up is only possible when local people and communities have a profound sense of ownership over their own story for change”.

Report arguing the case for universal credit reform from women with lived experience of the criminal justice system.

Report into the impact of internal and external migration on wages and employment.

Latest report on Ethnic Inequalities in Healthcare.

Press statement regarding the Levelling Up White Paper.

‘Levelling Up’. Why investment should be on people rather than place.

Review of governments proposed changes to higher education funding and access, suggesting that these will further disadvantage potential students who are already disadvantaged.

Published their youth-led report from children and young people with experience of the youth justice system.

Have launched their new website with a wealth of information and useful resources.

Have published a report  exploring the role of resilience in supporting the well-being of young people with racialised identities from minoritised communities.

Has published its initial findings, it found a third of pupils being written off, a demoralised workforce and a discredited exam system along with issues around school libraries and a postcode lottery in relation to accessing ‘the arts’.

Produced their final Food Power evaluation report following a 4 year programme aimed at strengthening local communities’ ability to reduce food poverty through solutions developed locally.

Resolution Foundation Video of their webinar on the Welfare State Beyond Beveridge. How well suited is our social security system for the  economic changes of the 2020s?

A kindly shared video and slides from their session on Doughnut Economics in Practice. There is a big emphasis on working with and using the knowledge from local voluntary sector organisations.

Have published their report into UK poverty. London remains the region of the UK with the highest level of poverty. Important to remember in the discussions around ‘levelling up’.

Have published a report looking at the economic security of young people aged 16-24 years old in the UK.

Shared new research by Coventry University on pregnant women in prison, should they be there at all, what happens when they are and what happens during birth and to their babies.

Published research Poverty and Parenting in the UK: Patterns and pathways between economic hardship and mothers’ parenting practices.

Have published a report on Families in Temporary Accommodation.

‘Unofficial’ report on the health outcomes of ‘left behind neighbourhoods’.

Cold Hungry and Stressed. The impact of poverty on children this winter.

Following a year of surveying London institutions and individuals a report on what is needed to make London Fairer, Healthier and Safer.

Doubling Down Report on the impact of providing 30 rather than 15 hours of free childcare.

Published research on young women’s experiences of navigating inadequate employment opportunities and the benefits system.

Have published their research on the volunteering policy response to the covid-19 pandemic in England.

Article produced jointly with LinkedIn on ‘proximity bias’. Looking at how parents with childcare responsibilities and working from home and/or working part time may be passed over for promotion opportunities and solutions to this.

Have launched the ‘Making London a Living Wage City’ project a plan to put £635m of wages into the pockets of Londoners and lift tens and thousands out of in-work poverty.

Fair Flexible Futures research report, Voices from the Pandemic: Part-time Workers and Job Seekers.

Report on levelling up with social housing

Report on the dire state of and the inequality within secondary school meals.

Report highlighting the impact of the pandemic on pregnant women, new babies and their families.

Report on the Right to Repair, Taking action to allow people to use products for longer reduces carbon impact and impacts positively on the lives of those on low income.

Published a detailed report on the reality of eating disorders including the impact on young people and families.

Report No Place Left Behind. This is the work of the Commission into Prosperity and Community Place Making developed by the Foundation with the aim of helping to improve the quality of lives lived in under-valued neighbourhoods, by promoting policies and practices that can improve place, health, happiness, wellbeing and a sense of community and agency.

Published their members report with recommendations for government action.

Report on the role of the Voluntary Sector in supporting mental health in London with a range of recommendations.

Children England are signatories to a submission from a wide range of third sector infrastructure bodies to the Treasury’s autumn spending review. It sets out a series of wide-ranging recommendations, which include greater investment in communities through new funds, and a call to cancel the cut to Universal Credit.

Published new research, Benefits to Society, young homeless people’s experience of the benefits system.

Report on low income families’ experiences of Covid19 in London.

Report on Early Childhood Education and the extent to which it has or has not narrowed gaps between the most and least advantaged young children.

Research highlighting the reality of poverty on Londoners in 2021 and most importantly Londoners desire to change things.

Have published a detailed and relatively easy to use borough by borough breakdown of the London Poverty Profile.

Interview between the Director or Money A&E and Austin Taylor-Laybourn, Grants Manager at Trust for London on what funders are doing to tackle inequalities.

Have released a report on their Future of Childhood research, featuring insights from over 400 children across the UK.

Response to the Household Support Fund announced by the Department for Work & Pensions..

Report on the difficulties faced by parents seeking non-childcare early years support.

Has published its first report into child poverty. It’s conclusion –  Government must commit to new cross-departmental strategy to tackle child poverty!

Report on the discriminatory poverty premium in insurance.

Have published new research on the changing patterns of poverty in early childhood.

Article on how ‘the increasing use of charity to address poverty not only normalises the idea that large numbers of people are destitute in one of the richest economies on Earth – it shores up the idea that government has no responsibility for it’.

Published their 2021 Good Childhood report. Measuring children’s happiness and well being.

Report on the difficulty families in deprived areas face in accessing child care and the impact of this.

Planning for the Recovery and the Shift Towards Home-Working: Implications for Poverty in Outer London, examines the short and long-term implications of COVID-19 on poverty and inequality in outer London, with a particular focus on employment, low pay, housing and the shift towards home-working.

Article  on the rise of fear and the likelihood of an increase in destitution of migrant families.it is believed that just over a quarter (26 per cent) of undocumented migrants in the UK, around 215,000, are children, half of whom were born in the UK, according to Greater London Authority research quoted in the article.

Have published their response to the Department for Education’s call for evidence on behaviour management in schools.  4in10 member St Vincent’s Family Project are sited as a best practice example.

Have published a report on the changing poverty risk facing larger families.

Report on Equity of Access to Early Years Education pointing out that poorer children are locked out of additional funded hours.

Have published their report exploring young people’s experiences of education, employment, health, policing and justice.

Local Government Association have published data showing the there has been a 10% increase in children and young people in England with an education, health and care (EHC) plan between January and May 2021 and is calling on government to set out reforms and funding arrangement to increased inclusion and meet the needs of all children with SEND. Special Needs Jungle have published a detailed breakdown of these figures and give a parent’s eye view of what this means.

Research showing that the attainment gap between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils has grown by up to 25 per cent over the past two years.

A report on the world having more than 20 million, millionaires! It tells us that  London is still ranked highest for High Net Worth Individuals, in terms of the lifestyle it provides and that London shared top spot with New York in terms of the city’s policies toward UHNWIs. The article goes on to say ‘Almost 700,000 people in the UK, including 120,000 children, fell into poverty as a result of the Covid-19 economic crisis, according to the Legatum Institute. Overall, the pandemic saw the total number of people in the UK living in poverty rise to more than 15 million, or 23% of the population’.