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“Removing the two-child benefit cap will ease financial hardship for thousands, but more radical policies are needed to reduce child poverty” warns expert in living standards.

As part of today’s Budget, the Chancellor announced the removal of the two-child benefit cap, in a move to break down the barriers of child poverty, to give every child an equal chance of achieving their goals.
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Make a new year resolution for 2025: Learn Japanese!

We are offering an in-person Japanese course for beginners, open to anyone aged 18 and over at Loughborough University.

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Loughborough’s research into living standards secures four more years of funding from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Loughborough’s Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) has secured a further four-year partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) to continue its work defining socially acceptable standards of living.
Hasulie Dias Abeyesinghe with Dr Alena Pfoser

Students awarded prizes at Graduation

On 12th December, our 2024 postgraduate cohort enjoyed a brilliant graduation day on campus celebrating with friends, family, and staff members from our School.

The importance of listening to children's voices in youth justice decision-making – new report

“Talk to me with respect … like the way they speak to their own kids. Don’t speak down to us and listen, speak to us on the level and we’ll listen too.” (Boy, Age 16, Youth Justice Service)

Jim McGuigan

It is with deep sadness that we mark the recent death of Jim McGuigan, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Analysis.

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