A new report noted a range of concerns including lack of access to quality, healthy food and living in cramped and poor ...

Almost one in three children in the UK live in poverty and the report comes as the government faces growing pressure to scrap ...

Children's commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza says one child told her "in the night rats came and bit his face".

In an emotional Commons speech, Rachel Maskell said the policy was “far from what this Labour Party is for”. The York Central MP has tabled a so-called “reasoned amendment” urging MPs to vote down the ...

Children in England are facing 'Dickensian levels' of poverty, going without basic needs like heating, a place to wash or ...

"Dickensian" is one of those literary modifiers that's overused. But before I officially retire this ruined adjective (or exile it to Australia, as Dickens himself would have done), I want to give ...

Thirty-nine Labour MPs have signed a fresh amendment calling for welfare cuts to be stopped when the proposals are put to a vote today.

Reading John Kass’ analysis of the London mob violence reveals a lot about his worldview. It is the world of Dickens, where Bob Cratchit has to ask Mr. Scrooge if he can add a piece of coal to ...

The typical amount of payday debt that lands a borrower in court, the study found: $994. And given the exorbitant interest rates on payday loans and so-called auto title loans, which are secured ...

"There's a fellow called Mertle, Mr. Mertle, in little Dorrit, who is this banker. And he runs his own bank, and the whole world puts their money in Mr. Mertle's bank, and of course it collapses ...

Being maltreated as a child can perhaps affect you for life. It now seems the harm might reach into your very DNA. Two recently published studies found evidence of changes to the genetic material ...