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A Minimum Digital Living Standard for UK Households in 2025: Full report The Minimum Digital Living Standard collaborates with members of the public to set out what households in the UK need to communicate, connect and engage in today’s digital world. This report covers the needs of pension-age people, working-age people and households with children. Hill, K., Blackwell, C., Balchin, E., Stone, E. and Yates, S. (2025) A Minimum Digital Living Standard for UK Households in 2025: Full report. Sheffield: Good Things Foundation.

Retirement Living Standards in the UK: 2024 update This short update report provides detail on the key budget areas that make up the Retirement Living Standards (RLS), setting out what is needed in 2024 at a minimum, moderate and comfortable standard of living. It reviews the impact of updating the moderate and comfortable RLS through changes in prices captured through the Consumer Prices Index between April 2023 and April 2024. It also sets out the key changes in the minimum retirement living standard resulting from new Minimum Income Standard (MIS) research on what is needed for a minimum socially acceptable standard of living published in 2024. Padley, M., Ellis, W. and Balchin, E. (2025) Retirement Living Standards in the UK; 2024 update. London: Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association

Local indicators of child poverty after housing costs, 2023/24 This report sets out the annual after housing costs child poverty statistics for local authorities and parliamentary constituencies produced by CRSP for the End Child Poverty Coalition. Stone, J. (2025) Local indicators of child poverty after housing costs, 2023/24. London: End Child Poverty.

Apprenticeships, Child Benefit and Universal Credit: exploring the impact of eligibility criteria on living standards and income adequacy This report, undertaken for Youth Futures Foundation, looks at the impact of a young person starting an apprenticeship on household incomes, and in particular the adequacy of income relative to the Minimum Income Standard (MIS). It uses two illustrative case study households (a couple with two children, one primary age and one secondary school age, and a lone parent with two children, one primary age and one secondary school age) to look at the impact of the loss of Child Benefit and the Universal Credit child element on a households’ ability to reach MIS, when a young person in the household starts an apprenticeship. Padley, M. (2024) Apprenticeships, Child Benefit and Universal Credit: exploring the impact of eligibility criteria on living standards and income adequacy. London: Youth Futures Foundation.

Towards a Scottish Minimum Digital Living Standard: Interim Report This interim report presents a Minimum Digital Living Standard (MDLS) for Scotland. Building on UK-wide and Welsh MDLS studies, it explored what households with children would need to fully participate in today’s digital world. Blackwell, C., D'Arcy, J., Harris, R., Hill, K., Polizzi, G. and Yates, S. (2025) Towards a Scottish Minimum Digital Living Standard: Interim. Edinburgh: Scottish Government