I-SPHEREs report for JRF published today, reveals a shameful increase in the level of destitution in the UK. The number of people experiencing destitution increased by 61% from 2019 to 2022, with an even larger increase in the number of children experiencing destitution. A combination of extremely low incomes, a threadbare social security system, the […]
Month: October 2023
Fair Way Scotland Evaluation Published
We found more than 1,200 people in Scotland received vital support in the first year of Fair Way Scotland – an ambitious programme to end destitution caused by UK immigration policy by Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Our research has been released against a backdrop of rising asylum seeker evictions and fears of the return of “lock-change” eviction […]
Welsh White Paper published on World Homeless Day
Over the past year, I-SPHERE’s Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick, has chaired an expert panel organised by Crisis on behalf of Welsh Minister Julie James on how legislative change could help end homelessness in Wales. The panel’s work was informed by the views of more than 300 people with lived experience of homelessness and wide engagement with […]