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Cost of housing asylum seekers soars to £41,000 per person, study finds: 'Urgent reform needed'
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Asylum hotels

Cost of housing asylum seekers soars to £41,000 per person, study finds: 'Urgent reform needed'

Drug deaths at highest level since records began – and experts say it's going to get worse
Cocaine
Drugs

Drug deaths at highest level since records began – and experts say it's going to get worse

Nitazenes: Use of life-saving overdose drug surges by 50% amid synthetic opioid crisis
Social Justice

Nitazenes: Use of life-saving overdose drug surges by 50% amid synthetic opioid crisis

Trans Brits feel like a 'constant target' in wake of Brianna Ghey's murder: 'Trans kids deserve better'
LGBTQ+ rights

Trans Brits feel like a 'constant target' in wake of Brianna Ghey's murder: 'Trans kids deserve better'

Pay rise for thousands of workers as Real Living Wage rises to £12.60 an hour – but is it enough?
real living wage

Pay rise for thousands of workers as Real Living Wage rises to £12.60 an hour – but is it enough?

'We're stepping in to help kids eat': Schools forced to dip into their own budgets to feed pupils
children grabbing food off table
Child poverty

'We're stepping in to help kids eat': Schools forced to dip into their own budgets to feed pupils

Children across the UK are living in 'Dickensian conditions' due to sky-high energy bills
child with a thermometer in his mouth
Energy bills

Children across the UK are living in 'Dickensian conditions' due to sky-high energy bills

Universal credit is not enough for single parents like me – I'm relying on food banks to survive
Sonia Gowland
Universal credit

Universal credit is not enough for single parents like me – I'm relying on food banks to survive

'We're not diesel monsters': Meet the London cabbies going electric to help fight climate change
Climate change

'We're not diesel monsters': Meet the London cabbies going electric to help fight climate change

Government is 'excluding' disadvantaged kids from free childcare. It could trap them in poverty
child's drawing of smiling person
Free childcare

Government is 'excluding' disadvantaged kids from free childcare. It could trap them in poverty

The inside story of nitazenes and the drug deaths crisis rocking Britain: 'No one is talking about it'
Nitazenes

The inside story of nitazenes and the drug deaths crisis rocking Britain: 'No one is talking about it'

Axing 'cruel' two-child benefit cap would reduce cost of poverty by over £3bn
child with hand over eyes
Two-child benefit cap

Axing 'cruel' two-child benefit cap would reduce cost of poverty by over £3bn

'It's like a death sentence when I'm not guilty': How the UK is failing women in prison with cancer
Prisons

'It's like a death sentence when I'm not guilty': How the UK is failing women in prison with cancer

What Tory leader hopefuls Badenoch and Jenrick think about poverty, benefits, housing and more
Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick
Politics

What Tory leader hopefuls Badenoch and Jenrick think about poverty, benefits, housing and more

Refugees still flee war-torn Ukraine every single day. This is what their journey to safety is like
Ukraine

Refugees still flee war-torn Ukraine every single day. This is what their journey to safety is like

Labour must end policies causing deaths of thousands of homeless people: 'Every person was precious'
Two people hugging outside Downing Street at a vigil. The Museum of Homelessness recorded 1,474 deaths - a 12% increase compared to 2022. Image: Lucinda MacPherson.
Homelessness

Labour must end policies causing deaths of thousands of homeless people: 'Every person was precious'

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Dear Keir Starmer – no one should be sleeping on cardboard under bridges in a country this rich
keir starmer labour leader
Our vendors

Dear Keir Starmer – no one should be sleeping on cardboard under bridges in a country this rich

DWP wants to send job coaches into mental health hospitals. Here's why it's a 'dangerous' idea
Employment

DWP wants to send job coaches into mental health hospitals. Here's why it's a 'dangerous' idea

TV legend Carol Vorderman on death, social media and why she's still voice of the opposition
Exclusive

TV legend Carol Vorderman on death, social media and why she's still voice of the opposition

DWP still 'considering' PIP changes amid speculation on future of disability benefit reform
Liz Kendall
Disability benefits

DWP still 'considering' PIP changes amid speculation on future of disability benefit reform