Social Justice

Period poverty forces UK women to use newspaper instead of sanitary products: 'It's unacceptable'
Sanitary towels
Period poverty

Period poverty forces UK women to use newspaper instead of sanitary products: 'It's unacceptable'

Millions of women and girls around the world, including here in the UK, experience the injustice of period poverty
Wales homeless football team faces race against time to survive: ‘We’re at breaking point’
Wayne Ellaway Homeless World Cup
Homelessness

Wales homeless football team faces race against time to survive: ‘We’re at breaking point’

Carer's allowance turns 50: 'I keep the money side of things from her, I don't want her to worry'
carer pushing someone in a wheelchair
Unpaid carers

Carer's allowance turns 50: 'I keep the money side of things from her, I don't want her to worry'

One in three terminally ill people miss out on benefits in the final year of their life
benefits

One in three terminally ill people miss out on benefits in the final year of their life

The US-Iran war creates a 'perfect storm' for the UK's food supply 'hitting the poorest hardest'
Social Justice

The US-Iran war creates a 'perfect storm' for the UK's food supply 'hitting the poorest hardest'

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What does the end to the two-child limit on benefits mean for you?
Child poverty

What does the end to the two-child limit on benefits mean for you?

What would happen if the UK's volunteers stopped volunteering?
Volunteering

What would happen if the UK's volunteers stopped volunteering?

Who cares for the carers? ‘I can escape without having to worry about what's going on at home’
band practice at Kingston Carers Network
Changemakers

Who cares for the carers? ‘I can escape without having to worry about what's going on at home’

Nearly two children in every classroom relying on food banks: 'A national emergency'
Children together writing on book
Cost of living

Nearly two children in every classroom relying on food banks: 'A national emergency'

Is the cost of living crisis back? And will prices in the UK ever come down?
Cost of living crisis

Is the cost of living crisis back? And will prices in the UK ever come down?

Thousands of people are protesting against rising water bills. Here's what happens if you don't pay
a tap with water coming out of it illustrating rising water bills
water

Thousands of people are protesting against rising water bills. Here's what happens if you don't pay

Adolescence writer Jack Thorne slams 'savagery' of government cuts to Access To Work payments
Jack Thorne at the BPG Awards 2026
Access To Work

Adolescence writer Jack Thorne slams 'savagery' of government cuts to Access To Work payments

Do settled migrants really get 'immediate access' to social housing?
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood
social housing

Do settled migrants really get 'immediate access' to social housing?

Striking photos capture British Muslim families breaking fast during Ramadan in food bank Britain
a British Muslim family breaking their fast during Ramadan
Cost of living

Striking photos capture British Muslim families breaking fast during Ramadan in food bank Britain

Are universities really churning out 700,000 jobless graduates on benefits?
university graduates at graduation
graduates

Are universities really churning out 700,000 jobless graduates on benefits?

Pensioners in poverty skip baths as water bills rise: 'I hate living this way'
elderly woman washing food in tap water
Water

Pensioners in poverty skip baths as water bills rise: 'I hate living this way'

Disabled journalist fears ‘secret cuts’ to Access to Work could force her out of employment
Access to Work

Disabled journalist fears ‘secret cuts’ to Access to Work could force her out of employment

Kinship carers forced to turn to food banks after taking in vulnerable children
Sarah, a kinship carer who took in her two-year-old nephew.
Kinship carers

Kinship carers forced to turn to food banks after taking in vulnerable children

Energy bills will fall in April. But will it be enough for people living in fuel poverty?
hob
Energy bills

Energy bills will fall in April. But will it be enough for people living in fuel poverty?

I'm worried that even more disabled children could get lost within the SEND system after reforms
Cara Roughani and her son Jayden.
SEND

I'm worried that even more disabled children could get lost within the SEND system after reforms

What will the SEND reforms mean for families and their disabled children?
Children in a classroom
SEND

What will the SEND reforms mean for families and their disabled children?

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It was a traumatic, hellish fight trying to get SEND support for my daughter
Gaby and David Boast and their daughter Nellie.
SEND

It was a traumatic, hellish fight trying to get SEND support for my daughter

Meet the dads who started a podcast about their experiences raising autistic children
The hosts of Autism Dadcast, Gaz Hitchin (left) and Andy Williams (right).
SEND

Meet the dads who started a podcast about their experiences raising autistic children

I left teaching because I felt eaten up by guilt that I couldn't help SEND children like my own
Sara and her daughter Ava.
SEND

I left teaching because I felt eaten up by guilt that I couldn't help SEND children like my own

My children were out of school for more than a year as we fought to get them SEND support
Elizabeth Padilla
SEND

My children were out of school for more than a year as we fought to get them SEND support