This month's PRAN newsletter features a guest blog from Age UK on pensioner poverty and the looming cost-of-living crisis, the latest episode of The Cost-of-Living Chronicles podcast on the politics of poverty, plus news of LATAN's upcoming conference and a special film screening of The Man With The Plan. From urgent warnings about the winter ahead to hopeful visions of collective action, this edition brings together research, policy, and practice from across our network.
Hello and welcome back to The Cost of Living Chronicles - this is our BONUS Episode on Music and Social Change! Musicians, politicians, doctors, researchers and many others gathered to confront child poverty through song, reflecting on how music connects people and exposes systemic injustice, honouring struggling families along the way. From protest anthems to soul classics, each song stirred anger, empathy, and pride - proving art can voice what policy reports and spreadsheets cannot!
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.