This month’s PRAN newsletter explores rising child and fuel poverty through a new podcast on baby banks and a blog on ending fuel poverty. November is Early Career Month, featuring forum speakers. It also highlights the UK Data Service’s £3,500 Data Impact Fellowship and JRF’s new housing insecurity research.
Ten years ago, baby banks barely existed. Today, more than 400 operate across the UK, supporting 400,000 children last year – 46 every hour. In Season 2's opener, Natalija Atas speaks with Sophie Livingstone, Emilie De Bruijn and Caroline Hewitt about the rising demand and what it reveals about child poverty today.
Meet JRF's Insight Infrastructure team, sharing updates with PRAN members. The team makes poverty data, research and lived experience easier to find, share and use, including through its Grounded Voices programme. It plans a spring 2027 conference on voice and power in evidence, with ideas welcome until 19 October 2026.
Drawing on feminist economics and experience across research, policy and community spaces, this piece argues that care is social infrastructure for change. It highlights an invisible emotional economy of trust and mutual support, warns that burnout reflects systemic extraction, and calls for investment in care, public services and community organisations.