Child poverty in Northern Ireland is still too high and people do not think the Executive is doing enough to address it. It is time to invest in a better future for children.

New analysis of the latest Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasts from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) finds that average annual household disposable incomes are projected to fall by ...

A year into the new Labour Government, key hardship measures show no improvement — over 7 million low-income families are still going without essentials. The 8th wave of our cost of living tracker ...

Insights from JRF's Grassroots Poverty Action Group (GPAG) on the 2026 UK Poverty report — the real stories and struggles behind the headline poverty statistics. We, as members of GPAG, have supported ...

The launch of this year's independent, annual state of the nation report which sets out the nature and scale of poverty in Northern Ireland.

In line with JRF’s focus on specific directional change, we have advocated and promoted the real Living Wage within the social investment sector, resulting in an extension of the Living Wage Funder ...

The report takes a fresh look at the realities of poverty in Northern Ireland, revealing the scale and urgency of the challenge the Executive needs to address. This event brought together voluntary ...

The Government needs a new approach to tackling energy affordability. A rising block tariff could be the answer.

The report examines how UK poverty rates have changed in our society over the last few years, as well as over the longer term. The research focuses particularly on changes to poverty among children ...

As the pressure of the cost of living crisis mounts, the Government has the opportunity to return incomes to growth for low- and middle-income households. Six months on from the beginning of the ...

Source: JRF analysis of HBAI 2023/24 • Renters are positioned on the rent distribution controlling for bedroom size and region. We do not account for actual bedroom entitlement levels under Local ...