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Teachers fear more than half a million children will go hungry this summer: 'It just can't go on'
Holiday Hunger Alamy
Food poverty

Teachers fear more than half a million children will go hungry this summer: 'It just can't go on'

Up to 675,000 school-aged children in England facing holiday hunger this summer – nearly identical to 2024 levels
The 2012 Olympics promised to regenerate East London. What went wrong?
Regeneration

The 2012 Olympics promised to regenerate East London. What went wrong?

Revealed: Why Greater Manchester Police refuses to give life-saving overdose drug to officers
A syringe of naloxone
Drugs

Revealed: Why Greater Manchester Police refuses to give life-saving overdose drug to officers

Giving 16-year-olds the vote: Will it beat far-right populism or does it play right into Farage's hands?
Electoral reform

Giving 16-year-olds the vote: Will it beat far-right populism or does it play right into Farage's hands?

Gen Z Londoners are handing out ‘awards’ to the organisations they blame for the housing crisis
Housing

Gen Z Londoners are handing out ‘awards’ to the organisations they blame for the housing crisis

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
DWP taking cash back from benefit claimants it overpaid is 'just like carer's allowance scandal'
Benefits

DWP taking cash back from benefit claimants it overpaid is 'just like carer's allowance scandal'

Childcare costs families £1,000 per child in the summer holidays: 'It makes me feel sick'
A group of children playing football together.
Childcare

Childcare costs families £1,000 per child in the summer holidays: 'It makes me feel sick'

Rents in UK are rising at highest rate in decades. Will they keep going up?
rents uk
Renting

Rents in UK are rising at highest rate in decades. Will they keep going up?

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?
Cost of living crisis

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?

Joe Wicks joins forces with Labour for animated series to get kids active over summer holidays
Animated Joe Wicks alongside alien mascots
Health and wellbeing

Joe Wicks joins forces with Labour for animated series to get kids active over summer holidays

Can building homes around and above railways help get Labour's housebuilding plan on track?
Housing

Can building homes around and above railways help get Labour's housebuilding plan on track?

Labour's new Family Hubs are the 'successor' to Sure Start. As child poverty rises, will they work?
Sure Start

Labour's new Family Hubs are the 'successor' to Sure Start. As child poverty rises, will they work?

Brits overwhelmingly back a wealth tax on the ultra-rich. Would it work in the UK?
Economics
Wealth Tax

Brits overwhelmingly back a wealth tax on the ultra-rich. Would it work in the UK?

Rise of the good landlords: Inside the movement to make the private rental sector tackle homelessness
Good Place Lettings boss Ben Rayner
RENTING

Rise of the good landlords: Inside the movement to make the private rental sector tackle homelessness

I lived on a debt-stricken housing estate as an anthropologist – this is what I learned about poverty
Debt

I lived on a debt-stricken housing estate as an anthropologist – this is what I learned about poverty

Manchester police 'encouraged' to give officers life-saving naloxone after Big Issue reporting
A police officer administers nasal naloxone.
Drugs

Manchester police 'encouraged' to give officers life-saving naloxone after Big Issue reporting

Renowned photographer Misan Harriman on Black Lives Matter, Gaza and finding hope in protest
Protest

Renowned photographer Misan Harriman on Black Lives Matter, Gaza and finding hope in protest

How I made friends with a great oak tree named Quercus
Trees

How I made friends with a great oak tree named Quercus

'It would be good to know how long we have left': This clifftop community is falling into the sea
Climate crisis

'It would be good to know how long we have left': This clifftop community is falling into the sea

Home Office extends 56-day refugee move-on period – but it doesn't go far enough, campaigners say
a tent on the street
Refugees

Home Office extends 56-day refugee move-on period – but it doesn't go far enough, campaigners say

Black and minority households 'forced to cut their hair and hide their accents' to get social housing
A black woman sitting on a sofa speaking to a psychologist
Racism

Black and minority households 'forced to cut their hair and hide their accents' to get social housing

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
DWP’s 'unhealthy' AI obsession is trapping people in poverty, Amnesty report finds
dwp
Artificial intelligence

DWP’s 'unhealthy' AI obsession is trapping people in poverty, Amnesty report finds

One in nine children hit by two-child benefit cap: 'The public will not stomach inaction'
A mother and three children.
Child poverty

One in nine children hit by two-child benefit cap: 'The public will not stomach inaction'

Here's a dozen fascinating trees you really should visit this year
Family Days Out

Here's a dozen fascinating trees you really should visit this year

Sky-high rents mean ageing tenants 'won't be able to retire' – adding billions to the benefits bill
an old woman sat on a bed looking stressed
RENTING

Sky-high rents mean ageing tenants 'won't be able to retire' – adding billions to the benefits bill

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