The Mental Costs of Living on a Low Income: Financial Insecurity and the Mental Health of Families

Over the past few months, Changing Realities parents and carers have been working on our mental health campaign. We have published a wonderful zine which contains participants' collage, audio recordings and poetry. In a Big Ideas session in March 2026, we also co-produced policy demands around the intersections between financial insecurity and mental (ill) health. Now, those demands have been written up into a briefing which will be shared with decision-makers across the UK. You can read the pdf here.