UK poverty: Causes, costs and solutions

UK poverty is real, costly and harmful. Millions of people, many of them in a working family, are struggling to make ends meet.

This report explains what poverty is and what causes it, highlights trends and projections in UK poverty, and makes recommendations for tackling:

• the high costs driving poverty, including housing
• poverty in childhood
• poverty in working age
• poverty in later life
• poverty for people with complex needs.

It gives more detail on the evidence for our strategy, We can solve UK poverty, which sets out recommendations for how all of us – governments, businesses and employers, service providers, investors, and citizens and communities – can act to solve poverty.