Using a range of indicators to measure livelihoods and well-being, this report shows how widespread poverty is and highlights the vast geographical disparities in levels of poverty that exist within the UK. It also goes on to set out what urgently needs to be done to address the sobering trends revealed.

Drea's Dream: An Unfinished Dance, a memoir, tells the inspiring story of a mother and daughter's indomitable journey of triumph over childhood cancer and disabilities, only to face the ultimate challenge of unexpected loss. Neither Susan Rizzo Vincent, nor her only child Andrea, could have foretold the turn of events that tragically changed both of their lives forever and irreversibly. But just as dance was the driving force behind Andrea's life, it became that same driving force in Susan's. Little did Susan know the lessons she would learn in helping to further Andrea's dreams, nor could...