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From the NHS to the DWP: UK's new data law will make your life 'radically different', minister says
Data

From the NHS to the DWP: UK's new data law will make your life 'radically different', minister says

As the government moves to ban Palestine Action, are terror laws being used for 'political policing'?
Yvette Cooper
Protest

As the government moves to ban Palestine Action, are terror laws being used for 'political policing'?

Big Issue hands the reins to young people from disadvantaged areas for landmark special issue
Onside takeover

Big Issue hands the reins to young people from disadvantaged areas for landmark special issue

Inside the food banks seeing 'highest demand ever seen' as cost of living harms families
Food preparation and the cafe at Granville Community Kitchen in North West London. Image: Mary Turner/ IFAN
Food banks

Inside the food banks seeing 'highest demand ever seen' as cost of living harms families

School standards minister dodges question from disabled boy about future of his education
Onside Takeover

School standards minister dodges question from disabled boy about future of his education

Government pledge to help care leavers into social housing 'will literally save lives'
care leavers hand in petition at Downing Street
Social housing

Government pledge to help care leavers into social housing 'will literally save lives'

Labour rejects Big Issue founder's bid to set legally binding child poverty reduction targets
Crossbench peer and Big Issue founder Lord John Bird
Child poverty

Labour rejects Big Issue founder's bid to set legally binding child poverty reduction targets

'I was barely existing before PIP': Benefit claimants say they're 'terrified' of Labour's cuts
Disability benefits

'I was barely existing before PIP': Benefit claimants say they're 'terrified' of Labour's cuts

This afternoon tea is made and served by people with learning disabilities: 'A wonderful celebration'
Man serves afternoon tea
Employment

This afternoon tea is made and served by people with learning disabilities: 'A wonderful celebration'

Social services threatened to take refugee's newborn baby away in row over horror hostel
A stock image of a baby's foot
Asylum accommodation

Social services threatened to take refugee's newborn baby away in row over horror hostel

Asylum seekers share their dreams for future: 'I want my children to have a safe life'
Morteza Ehsani, Sammi Ghaderi and Navid Hjyani.
Asylum seekers

Asylum seekers share their dreams for future: 'I want my children to have a safe life'

These Vietnamese adoptees are searching for their birth families 'before it's too late'
Marie Maubouche
Adoption

These Vietnamese adoptees are searching for their birth families 'before it's too late'

Renters fail in bid to stop council from making them homeless to house people already homeless
Renters Jules Zakolska and her partner are facing a no-fault eviction in Lambeth
Renting

Renters fail in bid to stop council from making them homeless to house people already homeless

Fury over secret recording of landlords joking about using renters as 'target practice'
Renters from the Acorn Norwich branch confront a landlord in protest at a landlord conference
RENTING

Fury over secret recording of landlords joking about using renters as 'target practice'

Cut off and uncared for: This is what life is like for asylum seekers in the UK
Asylum seekers

Cut off and uncared for: This is what life is like for asylum seekers in the UK

Labour pushes on with 'catastrophic' disability benefit cuts: 'The government is just not listening'
Keir Starmer
Disability benefits

Labour pushes on with 'catastrophic' disability benefit cuts: 'The government is just not listening'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Kneecap fans fly to UK to back band in court – as experts say terror case is 'pivotal' for free speech
Kneecap

Kneecap fans fly to UK to back band in court – as experts say terror case is 'pivotal' for free speech

Arise Sir Gordon! Big Issue co-founder Gordon Roddick knighted in King's birthday honours
King's birthday honours

Arise Sir Gordon! Big Issue co-founder Gordon Roddick knighted in King's birthday honours

Pressure mounts on Labour over two-child benefit cap as Scotland sets end date: 'Families can't wait'
Shirley-Anne Somerville, social justice secretary for the Scottish government, announced the plan for a two-child limit payment on a visit to Busy Bees Bellfield parent and toddler group in Portobello
Two-child benefit cap

Pressure mounts on Labour over two-child benefit cap as Scotland sets end date: 'Families can't wait'

Wales wants to be the world's first 'nation of sanctuary' for asylum seekers. Is it possible?
Welsh Refugee Council event at the Senedd, Cardiff Bay for the Nation of Sanctuary
Asylum seekers

Wales wants to be the world's first 'nation of sanctuary' for asylum seekers. Is it possible?

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