Solving poverty will not be quick or easy. But it is possible.

Dealing with the effects of poverty costs the UK £78 billion a year, £1,200 for every person, new research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has revealed.

A new report, ‘Counting the cost of UK poverty’, produced by Heriot Watt and Loughborough universities, is the first research to illustrate how much poverty across all age groups costs the public purse.