Acute strain on the jobs market has encouraged some states to consider reducing restrictions on employing minors ...

Labour set itself the ambitious goal today of halving child poverty over the next nine years. Chancellor Gordon Brown told a news conference: "Already one million have been taken out of poverty by ...

Nations cannot progress if their children are out of school. From the period of Enlightenment to the Industrial revolution, education has continuously reshaped the socioeconomic landscape of the world ...

She said: 'Since Labour came into power, 25,000 more children have been pushed into poverty due to the two-child benefit cap and now, according to the Government's own impact assessment ...

Labour voters are losing faith in the government's commitment to slash levels of child poverty, according to a rapid survey. The research shared with The Mirror follows grim official figures ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s right-wing government—with just nine months in office—is now the only Labour government in history that has increased child poverty under its rule. Official figures for ...

After the industrial revolution began in Britain, lawmakers spent years debating whether and how to intervene over widespread child labour. Some argued that “any interference with the rights of ...