Social Justice

'Long overdue': New Child Protection Authority announced – but will it stop grooming gangs?
Social Justice

'Long overdue': New Child Protection Authority announced – but will it stop grooming gangs?

UK asylum system delays and inefficiencies found to be 'wasting public funds' and 'harming lives'
Habib from Afghanistan explained that people are only crossing the Channel in small boats because they're desperate
Asylum seekers

UK asylum system delays and inefficiencies found to be 'wasting public funds' and 'harming lives'

Labour reveals national youth strategy with vow to give every young person 'something meaningful to do'
Young people

Labour reveals national youth strategy with vow to give every young person 'something meaningful to do'

Benefits stigma is booming. Here are the key myths around the system – debunked
Benefits street headlines in tabloids
Benefits

Benefits stigma is booming. Here are the key myths around the system – debunked

I spent four years in one of Britain's worst jails for a murder I didn't commit. Now I want justice
Criminal justice

I spent four years in one of Britain's worst jails for a murder I didn't commit. Now I want justice

'It's not just great beer. It's an image of Palestine': Meet the Middle East's first female brewmaster
Madees Khoury holding Sun & Stone, the beer which Taybeh Brewery made with Brewgooder.
Palestine

'It's not just great beer. It's an image of Palestine': Meet the Middle East's first female brewmaster

'I’m praying': From hope to fear, here’s how parents feel about the new child poverty strategy
child in waterproof jacket
Child poverty strategy

'I’m praying': From hope to fear, here’s how parents feel about the new child poverty strategy

Was the child poverty strategy worth the wait?
Keir Starmer speaking to families at a community centre.
Child poverty

Was the child poverty strategy worth the wait?

Everything you need to know about Labour's child poverty strategy
Save the Children projected stark child poverty statistics onto the Houses of Parliament
Child poverty

Everything you need to know about Labour's child poverty strategy

Labour’s child poverty strategy under fire over 'deeply concerning' lack of legal targets
Big Issue founder Lord John Bird
child poverty strategy

Labour’s child poverty strategy under fire over 'deeply concerning' lack of legal targets

Warning as new synthetic opioid 200 times stronger than heroin kills three users in days
A syringe of naloxone
Drug deaths

Warning as new synthetic opioid 200 times stronger than heroin kills three users in days

Half a million kids to be lifted out of poverty with Labour's new strategy: 'This is a moral mission'
Child poverty

Half a million kids to be lifted out of poverty with Labour's new strategy: 'This is a moral mission'

Parents helped with cost of baby formula as first details of child poverty strategy revealed
baby being bottle fed
Child poverty

Parents helped with cost of baby formula as first details of child poverty strategy revealed

What could – and should – be in Labour's long-awaited child poverty strategy?
Keir Starmer alongside school children on the day he announced the expansion of free school meals.
Child poverty

What could – and should – be in Labour's long-awaited child poverty strategy?

What lessons do Sadiq Khan's free school meals have for Labour as two-child benefit cap ends?
Sadiq Khan serves dinner
Child poverty

What lessons do Sadiq Khan's free school meals have for Labour as two-child benefit cap ends?

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved
a man chops vegetables on a table behind an older man
Christmas

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
How to volunteer at a food bank
volunteers arrange food donations along rows of crates on tables
Food banks

How to volunteer at a food bank

Rachel Reeves cracks down on benefit fraud. How much could she really save – and at what cost?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves
Benefit fraud

Rachel Reeves cracks down on benefit fraud. How much could she really save – and at what cost?

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

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

'Landmark moment': Rachel Reeves scraps two-child limit to lift 350,000 kids out of poverty
Autumn budget

'Landmark moment': Rachel Reeves scraps two-child limit to lift 350,000 kids out of poverty