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How Covid reshaped suspects’ rights in police custody
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How Covid reshaped suspects’ rights in police custody

‘Nothing has changed’ Returning to the Glasgow food queue that shocked the UK
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‘Nothing has changed’ Returning to the Glasgow food queue that shocked the UK

Ministers must break link between ‘health and wealth’ to end race inequality
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Ministers must break link between ‘health and wealth’ to end race inequality

PM warned against misleading parliament over UK poverty record
Boris Johnson told parliament there were fewer children in poverty now compared to a decade ago.
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PM warned against misleading parliament over UK poverty record

Scotland’s first Black academic on why we shouldn't remove offending statues
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Scotland’s first Black academic on why we shouldn't remove offending statues

What is the Right to Food?
The Right to Food campaign is taking action on soaring food bank use - a problem faced by Brits well before the pandemic.
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What is the Right to Food?

Work or child care? The summer holiday struggle facing parents
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Work or child care? The summer holiday struggle facing parents

What happened to the Windrush compensation scheme?
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What happened to the Windrush compensation scheme?

Windrush Day ‘is not valuable’, says Eddy Grant
Eddy Grant criticised Windrush Day
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Windrush Day ‘is not valuable’, says Eddy Grant

Windrush campaigners demand overhaul of 'retraumatising' compensation scheme
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Windrush campaigners demand overhaul of 'retraumatising' compensation scheme

From Maggie to Marcus: A history of free school meals
Marcus Rashford launched the Child Food Poverty Task Force to overhaul the free school meals system, including to expand them to every household on universal credit. Illustration: Matthew Brazier
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From Maggie to Marcus: A history of free school meals

Susie Dent has teamed up with the UN to make a refugee dictionary
Susie Dent is calling on the nation to change the conversation around refugees.
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Susie Dent has teamed up with the UN to make a refugee dictionary

No recourse to public funds: What does it mean and who does it affect?
Priti Patel ruled out repealing the no recourse to public funds condition during the pandemic.
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No recourse to public funds: What does it mean and who does it affect?

Hancock agrees to open healthy food scheme to children from migrant families
The Healthy Start scheme is worth £4.25 per week per child for families who qualify for state support.
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Hancock agrees to open healthy food scheme to children from migrant families

Black lives matter: ‘You can’t separate poverty from race’
A Black Lives Matter demonstration in London, July 2020.
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Black lives matter: ‘You can’t separate poverty from race’

'Clear majority' of British public backs universal credit increase
A majority of the public also wants reforms to stop working parents being priced out of childcare. universal credit
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'Clear majority' of British public backs universal credit increase

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Low-paid work and 'stagnating' incomes pushing children into poverty
Adult holding a child's hand in front of a pond. child poverty
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Low-paid work and 'stagnating' incomes pushing children into poverty

200,000 people denied universal credit because of their partner’s income
Around 50,000 people were ineligible for universal credit because of their migration status
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200,000 people denied universal credit because of their partner’s income

Fight poverty to support people in Covid hotspots, say experts
Deane in Bolton, where Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people are more than double the national average. poverty
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Fight poverty to support people in Covid hotspots, say experts

Majority of food bank users are disabled in 'abject failure' of state support
An aerial view of a woman packing food parcels at a food bank. Nearly half of people using food banks last year were in debt to the government
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Majority of food bank users are disabled in 'abject failure' of state support