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Home Office's asylum accommodation policy 'creates problems', admits Michael Gove
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Refugee Homelessness Crisis

Home Office's asylum accommodation policy 'creates problems', admits Michael Gove

DWP using AI to assess benefit and universal credit claims poses 'significant risk', experts warn
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Benefits

DWP using AI to assess benefit and universal credit claims poses 'significant risk', experts warn

FoodCycle: The community meal where refugees, ex-prisoners and old friends break bread together
FoodCycle guest
Cost of living crisis

FoodCycle: The community meal where refugees, ex-prisoners and old friends break bread together

Half of all homeless people have a brain injury. This project provides essential support
Illustration of a head silhouette and a brain with a red area
Health

Half of all homeless people have a brain injury. This project provides essential support

Sadiq Khan calls on Home Office to save lives and immediately pause asylum evictions
Sadiq Khan
Refugee Homelessness Crisis

Sadiq Khan calls on Home Office to save lives and immediately pause asylum evictions

DWP faces 'crisis' as staff driven to 'depression' and 'sickness' amid mounting pressure
DWP
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP faces 'crisis' as staff driven to 'depression' and 'sickness' amid mounting pressure

Number of homeless refugees in Cardiff doubles amid surge in Home Office asylum evictions
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Refugee Homelessness Crisis

Number of homeless refugees in Cardiff doubles amid surge in Home Office asylum evictions

Disabled people are cancelling Christmas because they can’t afford it: 'We can't wait another winter'
Cost of living crisis

Disabled people are cancelling Christmas because they can’t afford it: 'We can't wait another winter'

UK's economic stagnation has left households £4,300 poorer – but there's a plan to fix it
stagnation has left British households poorer
Cost of living

UK's economic stagnation has left households £4,300 poorer – but there's a plan to fix it

Family with two young children faces being split up by UK plan to cut legal migration: 'It's wrong'
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Immigration

Family with two young children faces being split up by UK plan to cut legal migration: 'It's wrong'

'We can't stay here forever': What's it like spending Christmas inside a homeless hostel?
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Homelessness

'We can't stay here forever': What's it like spending Christmas inside a homeless hostel?

'Poverty is killing children': How homeless families are fighting to survive this Christmas
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Cost of living crisis

'Poverty is killing children': How homeless families are fighting to survive this Christmas

Home Office's screeching halt on new refugee eviction policy, explained
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Refugee Homelessness Crisis

Home Office's screeching halt on new refugee eviction policy, explained

Museum of Austerity: The mixed reality exhibition giving a voice to victims of benefit cuts
Art

Museum of Austerity: The mixed reality exhibition giving a voice to victims of benefit cuts

Home Office to halt asylum evictions amid soaring refugee homelessness crisis
Glasgow refugee
Exclusive

Home Office to halt asylum evictions amid soaring refugee homelessness crisis

Food bank appeals for donations with 'joyous' remake of The Twelve Days of Christmas
food bank christmas video
Christmas

Food bank appeals for donations with 'joyous' remake of The Twelve Days of Christmas

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
All the ways the government's childcare plans will help richer parents and hurt the poor
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Childcare

All the ways the government's childcare plans will help richer parents and hurt the poor

Tory MP challenges Home Office over thousands of refugees facing homelessness by Christmas
Refugee Homelessness Crisis

Tory MP challenges Home Office over thousands of refugees facing homelessness by Christmas

Yes, some prisoners will be released early before Christmas – but it can actually make victims safer
Prison is no picnic - but for some rough sleepers, it at least provides a 'safe' place to stay. Image credit: Piqsels
Prisons

Yes, some prisoners will be released early before Christmas – but it can actually make victims safer

Councils plead for 'urgent' help to deal with surge in refugees evicted into homelessness
Refugee homelessness crisis

Councils plead for 'urgent' help to deal with surge in refugees evicted into homelessness

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