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In a six-screen video installation at the heart of the National Gallery this winter, Black Londoners play clapping games and trek through an ice-white Norwegian landscape. They’re dressed stylishly, but for an urban environment. ‘In Search of the Miraculous’ is accompanied by five reappropriations of famous Romantic paintings, in which the central European figures have been replaced with contemporary Black protagonists. Blurbs and interviews explain that the artist, Kehinde Wiley, sees the piece as an exploration of European Romanticism and our relationship with nature, climate change, migration, empire and, most importantly, race and what it means to be seen.

More than half of black children in the UK are now growing up in poverty, a new analysis of official data has revealed.

Black children are also now more than twice as likely to be growing up poor as white children, according to the Labour party research, which was based on government figures for households that have a “relative low income” – defined as being below 60% of the median, the standard definition for poverty.

Analysis from the National Record of Scotland shows that there are currently 1,056,080 people in Scotland over the age of 65 – all of whom are set to lose £520 next year, and a cumulative £2,600 over the next five years.

The UK government's Households Below Average Income (HBAI) statistics revealed UK pension poverty had risen to a 15 year high - with 2.1 million UK pensioners now living in poverty after housing costs, an increase of 200,000 on 2018/19.

Two Renfrewshire councillors have condemned the UK Governments decision to suspend the pension ‘triple lock’, the formula which determines annual state pension increases.

The UK Government, earlier this month, confirmed a one-year suspension of the ‘triple lock’.

The state pension is supposed to increase each year in line with whichever of the following three things is highest: inflation, average wage increase or 2.5 percent but during the Covid pandemic people were earning less than usual. This was because a large amount of people were placed on furlough.

One in five - or some 1.25million - women are living in poverty and progress in relieving hardship in old age has gone into reverse, a new study reveals.  

Fewer retired men struggle financially in old age, but one in six, or around 860,000, are also badly off. 

Age UK released a report on poverty in old age - defined as having an income below 60 per cent of typical household income - as MPs were due to debate the controversial suspension of the state pension triple lock today.

Pay for nurses and other NHS staff in England will have fallen in real terms by more than 7% since 2010, even if they accept the latest offer from the government, according to new analysis that will fuel rising anger about public sector pay deals.

Figures produced by the TUC show that remuneration for nurses, community nurses, medical secretaries, speech therapists, physiotherapists, paramedics and radiographers will have dropped by between 7.3% and 7.6% in real terms in just over a decade, even after factoring in the 3% rise offered last week.

Ethnic minorities, the self-employed and low-income families in Britain suffered greater deprivation levels during the coronavirus pandemic despite "surprisingly positive" living standards figures, a report published Thursday found.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think tank's annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality identified these groups as the hardest hit, even as unprecedented state support mitigated the worst effects of the crisis.

The furlough scheme and the universal credit increase had an 'astonishing' impact on Covid-19 poverty but some found themselves excluded

Any public inquiry into Covid-19 must examine the impact of the UK’s high poverty levels going into the pandemic on its health and economic impacts, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has demanded.

The call comes as newly released Government data shows a rise in child poverty and pensioner poverty prior to the pandemic.

Some 14.5 million people were trapped in poverty in 2019/20, including 4.3 million children, 8.1 million working-age adults and 2.1 million pensioners, according to the Department for Work and Pensions’ Households below average income (HBAI) statistics.

It also found that poverty among children and pensioners has been on a rising trend for the six years prior to Covid-19. 

Millions of families are without a financial safety net and facing a “miserable January” as the UK cost of living crisis gathers pace, according to Labour analysis.

More than six million adults in working households had no savings at all to fall back on even before the pandemic, the research showed, while over half of working families had less than £3,000 to act as a financial buffer.

MORE than half of black children in the UK are growing up in poverty, data of an official analysis has found.

The research done by Labour party says black children are now twice as likely to grow up poor as white children. The findings were based on government figures for households that have a “relative low income”.

Over the last decade, the total number of black children in poor households have doubled, with proportion of black children living in poverty going up from 42 per cent in 2010-11 to 53 per cent in 2019-20.

THE Tories have been accused of "hammering" Scottish pensioners after new analysis showed the UK Budget is set to see pensioners lose out on thousands of pounds.

Analysis from former UK pensions minister Sir Steve Webb shows pensioners will lose £520 next year, and a cumulative £2600 over the next five years, as a result of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's decision to scrap the Triple Lock for state pensions.

With the OBR forecasting inflation will rise by over 4%, it means millions of pensioners could end up with a real terms cut in their state pension next year.

Ethnic minorities, the self-employed and low-income families in Britain suffered greater deprivation levels during the coronavirus pandemic despite "surprisingly positive" living standards figures, a report published Thursday found.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies [IFS] think tank's annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality identified these groups as the hardest-hit, even as unprecedented state support mitigated the worst effects of the crisis.