Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Ric Blenkharn, consultant at Bramhall Blenkharn Leonard. Picture: Jim Varney

Don't forget the homeless as we head into the new year

Lovell collects over 250 items of food for food banks across Yorkshire

Lovell collects over 250 items of food to support food banks across Yorkshire

Battleground Yorkshire: 'Parties need plan to tackle high levels of deprivation'

Management consultancy Q5 marks 5 years of growth and community impact in Leeds

The Archbishop of York, The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Stephen Cottrell at York Minster. Photographed for The Yorkshire Post by Tony Johnson

Archbishop of York: In the end, love will triumph on the other side of suffering

Archbishop Stephen Cottrell pictured at the St Paulinus Chapel in Dewsbury Minster last year. PIC: Tony Johnson

Political consensus needed on tackling child poverty - Stephen Cottrell

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (front centre) during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. PIC: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA Wire

How 13 years of Tory failure have broken Britain - Yorkshire Post Letters

Ric Blenkharn

Architect Ric Blenkharn on how we could do more to tackle homelessness

Raising the value of benefits would have been preferable to sending out a string of lump sum cost of living payments to households, according to a leading UK economics thinktank which has dubbed the sporadic cash boosts an “ineffective sticking plaster”.

Cost of living payments are ‘ineffective sticking plaster’, warns IFS

People who have loved ones staying at the home reported their experiences to the CQC and Sky News.

Older workers forced into retirement during pandemic, research suggests

Ric Blenkharn

Radical solutions needed to ensure Generation Z have a home to call their own.

How to make the housing market more inclusive

Report calls for action to make the housing market more inclusive

The York based Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has released its annual report, showing some 13.4 million people were in poverty during 2020/21, including 3.9 million children. Picture: Adobe

Quarter of Yorkshire families living in poverty, new research shows

Helen Lennon gives her expert view.

Social housing providers witnessing 'permacrisis' take its toll: Helen Lennon

Social housing providers are seeing first-hand the impact the worst cost of living crisis in a generation is having on people across Yorkshire. Collectively at the West Yorkshire Housing Partnership, we own and manage over 170,000 homes across the region and our members are hearing heart-breaking stories about what their customers are doing to put food on the table and keep warm.

Helen Lennon

(left to right) Gavin Williamson, David TC Davies, Mark Harper, Mel Stride, Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt, Grant Shapps, Therese Coffey, Gillian Keegan, Alister Jack, Andrew Mitchell, Jeremy Quin, Simon Hart, Victoria Prentis, Chris Heaton-Harris, Lord True, Steve Barclay, Oliver Dowden, James Cleverly, Dominic Raab (hidden), Michael Gove (hidden), Suella Braverman (hidden), Michelle Donelan, Nadhim Zahawi, John Glen and Robert Jenrick as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds his first Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London. Picture date: Wednesday October 26, 2022.

"Prudent" decision to postpone mini-budget, but campaigners say certainty needed

More young people are locked out of home ownership as thenumber of those who own multiple homes doubles

Multiple home ownership doubles as number of young homeowners halves

Chancellor Rishi Sunak holds the Budget box as he departs 11, Downing Street, ahead of delivering his Autumn Budget and Spending Review to Parliament on October 27, 2021. He has been warned by economists that the cost of living crisis is set to compound long-running regional economic inequalities. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Yorkshire's economic plight deepens as Rishi Sunak warned levelling up is being ...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak holds the Budget box as he departs 11, Downing Street, ahead of delivering his Autumn Budget and Spending Review to Parliament on October 27, 2021. He has been warned by economists that the cost of living crisis is set to compound long-running regional economic inequalities. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Yorkshire's economic plight deepens as Rishi Sunak warned levelling up is being ...

The Leeds City Region is set to see funding drop, new analysis has suggested.

North 'set to lose out on £300m' as regional economic funding drops after Brexit

The York-based Joseph Rowntree Foundation's deputy director of policy and partnerships, Katie Schmuecker, has warned that more needs to be done to help tackle the cost of living crisis, especially for households on the lowest incomes. (Photo: Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

York-based Joseph Rowntree Foundation warns that millions of households face har...

The York-based Joseph Rowntree Foundation is challenging the Government to build a new generation of social housing to alleviate poverty.

Build back better with this social housing revolution – Joe Elliott

Families in Bradford are expected to be the most affected by the end of a temporary uplift in Universal Credit. Picture: Simon Hulme

Yorkshire to be hardest hit 'by biggest overnight cut to benefits since 1945'

What more can be done to safeguard jobs and employment rights?

Why we need new Employment Bill to protect workers’ rights – Rebecca McDonald

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is under pressure to retain the £20 a week increase to Universal Credit announced at the outset of the Covid pandemic

Why £20 Universal Credit ‘lifeline’ must be maintained – Lucy Bannister

The Government has been warned that it faces the biggest education challenge in the post-war era to ensure that glaring inequalities in education across the nation are not being compounded in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Photo credit: JPIMedia

Education faces biggest inequalities in the post-war era, Northern leaders say

The Government has been warned that it faces the biggest education challenge in the post-war era to ensure that glaring inequalities in education across the nation are not being compounded in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Ruth Dacey

The ban on bailiff enforced evictions ends on May 31

1 million fear losing their homes after eviction ban ends, charity claims

A quarter of Yorkshire's residents are living in poverty, the York based Joseph Rowntree Foundation has said.

Almost quarter of Yorkshire residents are living in poverty, says charity report

Residents across Yorkshire are bracing for more weeks of lockdown

Fears of mass unemployment and mental health difficulties

What should be done to tackle child destitution?

Child destitution is a national scandal; let’s end it – Helen Barnard

Across the region an estimated 270,000 privately renting households across the region are worried about paying their rent over the next three months.

Hundreds of thousands of Yorkshire renters report worries for paying winter rent

The increase in payments was only designed to last a year. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Universal Credit payments could be decreased in April 2021 - here's why

Richmond is one of the places that has suffered the most

Ryedale is one of the hardest places in the UK to find a job

The Government provided councils with funding to provide emergency accommodation to 15,000 rough sleepers earlier in the year. Picture: Yui Mok/PA

'Bold action' needed to stop increase in homelessness as recession hits

Picture: AdobeStock

Poorest hit hardest by pandemic - both economically and socially

More than a third of furloughed workers are worried about meeting rent costs. Picture: PA

Government urged to give furloughed workers greater help with rent costs

People who never used a food bank before are turning to them for emergency support

This is how much food bank use has risen, as charities call for emergency funds

The risk of poverty is higher among single parent families

One in five people in Yorkshire now living in poverty - this is why

Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers milk in Guiseley, Leeds, ahead of Thursday's General Election. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Boris Johnson must deliver for Yorkshire after low-income voters give him victor...

Hartlepool, England. Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Restore pride in Britain's forgotten towns, charity urges

Post-Brexit UK must prioritise left behind communities. Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Post-Brexit UK must prioritise left-behind communities - The Yorkshire Post says

A third of children are living in poverty

One in three Yorkshire children living in poverty

Public money can be used to subsidise bus services which aren't profitable, but that budget in West Yorkshire is being squeezed.

Extra evening buses 'not high priority' - transport chiefs

Photo: PA/Daniel Leal-Olivas

Yorkshire firms’ LGBT work lauded in campaign group list

Picture by Tom Woollard.

Leeds poverty campaigners in new film pitched to The Guardian, Joseph Rowntree F...

Campbell Robb joined the JRF from his previous role at charity Shelter

Joseph Rowntree Foundation chief executive Campbell Robb: My mission to make wor...

West Yorkshire Combined Authority is writing to the Department for Transport over its concerns about the affordability and reliability of bus services in Leeds and the rest of West Yorkshire.

West Yorkshire bus concerns to be raised with government

Tory Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen and Labour Sheffield City Region Mayor Dan Jarvis led cross-party calls for the North to get control of cash repatriated from the EU after Brexit.

Northern mayors demand control of cash repatriated from the EU after Brexit

Cash.

Yorkshire campaigners call for review of Government's flagship Universal Credit ...

People in employment are among those now using food banks.

Yorkshire workers turning to food banks as finances bite

Leeds Bus Station.

The North's '˜unreliable' public transport is '˜holding back' poorer families, r...

The North's '˜unreliable' public transport is '˜holding back' poorer families, r...

Mothers tend to spend more time in part-time employment, so they do not benefit from pay rises associated with more experience, research found.

Mothers hit by '30% pay penalty' for working part-time

Campbell Robb.

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