JRF analysis shows that more people receive social security for health issues and disabilities in Labour’s heartlands.

Sheena is the Senior Policy Adviser in JRF's Northern Ireland team. Since 2020, she has worked in senior policy and advocacy roles within the Children’s Sector in NI, including Action for Children and ...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is partnering with the York Festival of Ideas to mark 100 years since the York confectionary businessman, social reformer and philanthropist Joseph Rowntree died.

This new analysis shows the level of proposed cuts for some example families, and how multiple cuts interact with one other. There are some welcome changes with people in receipt of benefits having a ...

Discussion ahead of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) statement on 26 March has focused on whether the Chancellor will meet her fiscal rule, and the extent to which near unprecedented cuts ...

Responding to the Chancellor’s Spring Statement and the publication of the government’s impact assessment for their planned cuts to disability benefits, Paul Kissack, Chief Executive of the Joseph ...

Responding to the Government's green paper on disability and sickness benefits and the Secretary for Work and Pensions' speech, JRF Chief Executive Paul Kissack said: "No truly moral choice would ...

New modelling from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that living standards are set to fall across the rest of the decade, with the average family £750 worse off in real terms by April 2029 compared ...

Responding to today's Bank of England decision to keep the interest rate at 4.5%, JRF Senior Economist Rachelle Earwaker said: “Today’s announcement that the interest rate remains unchanged represents ...

We have a bold mission: to support and speed up the transition to a more equitable and just future, free from poverty, where people and planet can flourish. And to further that mission we have an ...

These rumoured cuts would be the largest in social security for a decade, since George Osborne’s 2015 Budget. They'd be 3 times the size of the (subsequently cancelled) cuts Iain Duncan Smith resigned ...