The Channel 5 documentary, titled: 'Slum Britain: 50 Years On', suggests that being brought up in poor living conditions can have a damaging effect on people's future.

Nick Hedges, the photographer, who has died 81, spent four years from 1968 documenting the appalling conditions in which the poorest families in Britain were living: a child from Birmingham ...

Anyone who thinks all the slums were swept away ­decades ago should take a look at this image from Britain TODAY. The picture was released by the charity Shelter to mark 50 years of its campaign ...

Victorian Slum House is an engaging bit of reality TV that mines its drama from being a literal time warp into the seedier side of British history.

I wouldn’t have bet big money on Channel 5 revisiting some of the children pictured in these slums with care and moving sensitivity, while also highlighting the plight of the modern-day homeless, but ...

More than four decades ago, stark images of poverty-stricken children in cities across the UK shocked the nation.

This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Slums in the sky” ...

'Britain needs more slums': Think-tank forced to defend blog proposing favela-style dwellings in the UK Author Theo Clifford received death threats on social media over the article ...

Slum Britain: UK cities given ‘make-unders’ to show what life would be like if Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament were in shanty towns ...

Forgotten estate named 'worst slum in Britain' with crumbling houses overrun with rats Unearthed footage shows one of the most dangerous and unsanitary estates in British history.

In the race to accommodate ever-increasing numbers of people, the world’s poorest communities have an unexpected ally: entrepreneurs determined to turn slums into safe places to live.