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Towards a Scottish Minimum Digital Living Standard: Interim Report This interim report presents a Minimum Digital Living Standard (MDLS) for Scotland. Building on UK-wide and Welsh MDLS studies, it explored what households with children would need to fully participate in today’s digital world. Blackwell, C., D'Arcy, J., Harris, R., Hill, K., Polizzi, G. and Yates, S. (2025) Towards a Scottish Minimum Digital Living Standard: Interim. Edinburgh: Scottish Government

Food insecurity amongst Universal Credit claimants: the Benefits and Nutrition Study (BEANS), a cross-sectional online study Thomas, M., Rose, P., Coneyworth, L., Harvey, J., Goulding, J., Stone, J., Padley, M., O'Reilly, P. and Welham, S. (2025) Food insecurity amongst Universal Credit claimants: the Benefits and Nutrition Study (BEANS), a cross-sectional online study. European Journal of Nutrition 64(115) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-025-03596-y

Same Storm, Different Boats - Working Lives and Lockdown at Loughborough

A Minimum Income Standard for Students This report presents research, supported by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) with funding from TechnologyOne, looking at the cost of a minimum standard of living for students. It draws on the Minimum Income Standards (MIS) approach to set out what students need to participate in university life. The research identifies minimum needs and the cost of meeting these – for accommodation, in the home, for university, socially and life more broadly. Rent accounts for the largest single area of cost, and over half (59%) of a minimum budget is made up of rent, utility bills, clothes and food within the home. The report outlines a significant shortfall between the MIS budget and student maintenance loans, and shows the level of other resources, such as employment or parental support, required to fill the gap. Hill, K., Padley, M. and Freeman, J. (2024) A Minimum Income Standard for Students. London: Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI).

Households living below a Minimum Income Standard: 2008–2023 This report is the 12th in a series monitoring the number of people living beneath the Minimum Income Standard in the UK. It focuses on 3 groups – children, working-age adults and pensioners – and how they have fared between 2008 and 2023. Robinson, E., Stone, J. and Padley, M. (2025) Households below the Minimum Income Standard: 2008-2023. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation