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Almost all Welsh councils are bracing themselves for a surge in homelessness this winter
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Housing

Almost all Welsh councils are bracing themselves for a surge in homelessness this winter

Food banks are giving out almost 2,000 emergency parcels to children every day
food banks
Food banks

Food banks are giving out almost 2,000 emergency parcels to children every day

Smoke alarms will finally be required in social housing - almost five years after Grenfell
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Fire Safety

Smoke alarms will finally be required in social housing - almost five years after Grenfell

Five graphs that show why the world today is so unfair for young people
Future generations

Five graphs that show why the world today is so unfair for young people

Doctors and MPs join 'save the NHS' protest outside parliament
NHS

Doctors and MPs join 'save the NHS' protest outside parliament

Social care cap: What is it and what does it mean for me?
woman's hands placing medication into elderly man's hands. social care cap
social care

Social care cap: What is it and what does it mean for me?

Revealed: Thousands of homes being built on floodplains ignore climate change risk
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Housing

Revealed: Thousands of homes being built on floodplains ignore climate change risk

Police arrest 119 people at protest to support jailed Insulate Britain activists
Insulate Britain

Police arrest 119 people at protest to support jailed Insulate Britain activists

Homelessness could cost the government £2.6bn a year without action
Stop Mass Homelessness
Stop Mass Homelessness

Homelessness could cost the government £2.6bn a year without action

This chart shows the real cost of beer over the last 20 years
Cost of Living

This chart shows the real cost of beer over the last 20 years

UK trans mutual aid funds to donate to or get support from
LGBTQ+

UK trans mutual aid funds to donate to or get support from

Robert Jenrick's 'unlawful' approval of Tory donor's £1bn development is reversed
Housing

Robert Jenrick's 'unlawful' approval of Tory donor's £1bn development is reversed

Jeff Bezos has donated $100m to homelessness causes – here's how much that is in the real world
Jeff Bezos charity
Homelessness

Jeff Bezos has donated $100m to homelessness causes – here's how much that is in the real world

Legacy benefits freeze left disabled people living on ‘historically’ low payments, court hears
legacy benefits protesters
welfare system

Legacy benefits freeze left disabled people living on ‘historically’ low payments, court hears

45 years in the NHS: 'If you don’t love your job, you won’t get nowhere'
Lee Pearson has worked all over the NHS in his 45 years of service
NHS

45 years in the NHS: 'If you don’t love your job, you won’t get nowhere'

‘It’s beyond belief’: Only one social home built for every 192 households on waiting lists
social rent home
Social Housing

‘It’s beyond belief’: Only one social home built for every 192 households on waiting lists

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Plans to remove British citizenship without notice 'would repeat Windrush mistakes'
borders bill windrush
Home Office

Plans to remove British citizenship without notice 'would repeat Windrush mistakes'

HS2: What is it and which bits have been scrapped?
Prime minister Boris Johnson in an orange high vis jacket and a HS2 helmet
Transport

HS2: What is it and which bits have been scrapped?

'Institutional racism is something you cannot escape': Azeem Rafiq testimony resonates with British Muslims
Azeem Rafiq
Racism

'Institutional racism is something you cannot escape': Azeem Rafiq testimony resonates with British Muslims

Late Big Issue seller Dean Williams remembered as ‘outgoing friend to everyone’
Big Issue vendor Dean Wiliams
Our Vendors

Late Big Issue seller Dean Williams remembered as ‘outgoing friend to everyone’