This month’s PRAN newsletter explores rising child and fuel poverty through a new podcast on baby banks and a blog on ending fuel poverty. November is Early Career Month, featuring forum speakers. It also highlights the UK Data Service’s £3,500 Data Impact Fellowship and JRF’s new housing insecurity research.
Ten years ago, baby banks barely existed. Today, more than 400 operate across the UK, supporting 400,000 children last year – 46 every hour. In Season 2's opener, Natalija Atas speaks with Sophie Livingstone, Emilie De Bruijn and Caroline Hewitt about the rising demand and what it reveals about child poverty today.
Meet JRF's Insight Infrastructure team, sharing updates with PRAN members. The team makes poverty data, research and lived experience easier to find, share and use, including through its Grounded Voices programme. It plans a spring 2027 conference on voice and power in evidence, with ideas welcome until 19 October 2026.
Where welfare and immigration collide, migrant claimants fall through the cracks. Drawing on her work as a Welfare Rights Advisor at Derbyshire Unemployed Workers’ Centre, Alicja Zon reveals the “Time Tax” facing non-UK citizens, from tripled waiting times to absent interpreters, and argues for advocacy that puts the person before the passport.