A year into the new Labour Government, key hardship measures show no improvement - over 7 million low-income families are still going without essentials.

A national care strategy must put unpaid carers at its centre, supporting their choice to care or not through well-funded services, and valuing their skills to improve care quality.

Reforms are needed to unlock work for people receiving work-related disability benefits, as informed by research with disabled people in partnership with Scope.

The Government has proposed the largest cuts to social security since 2015. As well as reducing expenditure on health-related benefits, the Government hopes these reforms will support more disabled ...

As a member of the Social Investment team at JRF, Lena leads on investments across care, work, and place-based initiatives.

As Portfolio Operations Manager in the Social Investment team at JRF, Dominika manages operational activities and supports process improvements.

Hannah joined JRF in June 2025 as Director of People, leading the development and delivery of our People Strategy and managing HR activity including recruitment, reward, HR policy and learning and ...

This study looks at the shaky foundations of material life for many people, and highlights a worrying increase in the markers of mental ill-health. It examines links between the two, documenting the ...

As climate changes, economies stagnate or slow, and colonial patterns of exploitation continue — can creative, critical imagination navigate beyond today’s multiple crises?

Primary schools and GP surgeries are staggering under the weight of hardship. Anyone serious about improving them needs an urgent action plan for tackling hardship.

Our early years education and childcare system provides a vital service: the care and education of our youngest children, as well as being a tool to enable parents to work. Westminster’s plans to ...