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A new Childhood and Families Taskforce is to develop policies to improve childhood and family life, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said today.
Thousands of families, already struggling to feed and clothe their children, will be plunged into the ‘bleakest’ winter crisis, a new report by Action for Children warns.
A project to encourage families with children under five to use their local library and make sharing stories a ‘regular part of life’ has been launched by reading charity BookTrust.
Unions and charities have warned that families and low-paid public sector workers will be the hardest hit by cuts in tax credits and benefits and the rise in VAT to 20 per cent, announced by George...
Financially struggling families in Peterborough are being supported by a local nursery group that is gathering children’s coats to ensure that they are warm this winter.
Families are sharing beds, children are sleeping on floors and sharing soiled beds due to the cost-of-living crisis, reveals new research.
Government plans to double free childcare ‘won’t go far enough’ to help families with disabled children access childcare, a group of charities has warned.
The benefits system needs to reach more families and be raised in line with inflation sooner in order to avoid children going cold and hungry, says Dr Rebecca Montecute of the Sutton Trust
More than half of families struggle financially when dads/partners take paternity leave, according to new research by the TUC, which is calling for paternity pay to be increased to at least the...