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Social Justice

Digital inclusion: What is it and why is it important?
digital inclusion
digital inclusion

Digital inclusion: What is it and why is it important?

Families could be spending £550 extra on energy bills next year
energy crisis and fuel poverty
energy crisis

Families could be spending £550 extra on energy bills next year

Universal credit taper rate change does not help low-income families ‘live with dignity’
energy price cap
Universal Credit

Universal credit taper rate change does not help low-income families ‘live with dignity’

Low-income families in Scotland to receive £20 per week from April
scottish child payment
welfare system

Low-income families in Scotland to receive £20 per week from April

Kitmas campaign will give football shirts to thousands of children in poverty this Christmas
Kitmas founder Paul Watson
Charity

Kitmas campaign will give football shirts to thousands of children in poverty this Christmas

MPs join calls for Windrush compensation scheme to be taken off Home Office
Windrush Scandal

MPs join calls for Windrush compensation scheme to be taken off Home Office

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

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?

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

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

'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

DWP faces High Court battle over 'morally bankrupt' legacy benefits rule
Disabled activists march on Euston Road to protest against legacy benefits decision
welfare system

DWP faces High Court battle over 'morally bankrupt' legacy benefits rule

Windrush compensation scheme should be independent as victims fear Home Office, experts say
Windrush

Windrush compensation scheme should be independent as victims fear Home Office, experts say

Government accused of ‘institutionalising’ food banks in new guidance for councils
food banks
Poverty

Government accused of ‘institutionalising’ food banks in new guidance for councils

Children in care are being handcuffed on their way to school and foster homes
Children in care can be handcuffed under the law as a last resort
Social care

Children in care are being handcuffed on their way to school and foster homes

Scurvy and malnutrition in the UK have doubled since 2010
A doctor listening to a child's back through a stethoscope. Poverty
Poverty

Scurvy and malnutrition in the UK have doubled since 2010

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Patients are waiting in ambulances outside A&E for 14 hours with demand at 'highest ever level'
Ambulances queue outside the Royal Cornwall Hospital
Social Justice

Patients are waiting in ambulances outside A&E for 14 hours with demand at 'highest ever level'

What is conversion therapy?
conversion therapy
Social Justice

What is conversion therapy?

Nurses say levelling up is ‘lip service’ if lessons aren't learnt from Covid health inequalities
UK health inequality was reflected in Covid-19 death figures, when Bangladeshi men were five times as likely to die with the virus as their white counterparts.
Social Justice

Nurses say levelling up is ‘lip service’ if lessons aren't learnt from Covid health inequalities

‘It’s going to be a dark winter’: Universal credit claimants respond to the Budget
Universal credit claimants will keep 45p for every £1 they earn at work, starting in December.
Social Justice

‘It’s going to be a dark winter’: Universal credit claimants respond to the Budget