The Big Issue Group believes that ending poverty should be a legal requirement.
It is calling for a ‘Poverty Zero’ law which would require every government to set legally binding targets to reduce poverty – as with Net Zero.
Of the 14.4 million people in the UK living in poverty, 3.8 million are living in destitution, the most extreme form of poverty.
These are people struggling to keep themselves warm, clean and fed. And the number is rising – destitution has more than doubled over the last seven years.
Big Issue is calling for the government’s first target to be to end destitution in the next 10 years.
Its ‘Blueprint for Change’ details the policies it wants to see implemented over the course of the decade to work towards the target of ending destitution.