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Social Justice

Teacher of the Year winner Oli McVeigh: 'Boys are bottling up and repressing lots of different ideas'
Teacher of the year Oli McVeigh
Education

Teacher of the Year winner Oli McVeigh: 'Boys are bottling up and repressing lots of different ideas'

Assisted dying is a step closer to being legalised – but are the safeguards tough enough?
kim leadbeater talking about her assisted dying bill
Assisted dying

Assisted dying is a step closer to being legalised – but are the safeguards tough enough?

'This is a very difficult decision': MPs vote to take forward assisted dying bill after emotional debate
kim leadbeater
Assisted dying

'This is a very difficult decision': MPs vote to take forward assisted dying bill after emotional debate

'This will ease the backlog': Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years
Home secretary Yvette Cooper
Legal aid

'This will ease the backlog': Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years

'Remember these are human beings': This is what the highly-politicised UK migration stats really mean
Protesting the Borders Bill
Immigration

'Remember these are human beings': This is what the highly-politicised UK migration stats really mean

'A national disgrace': A quarter of households with children under four don't have enough food
A child eating
Food poverty

'A national disgrace': A quarter of households with children under four don't have enough food

Millions of Brits 'outvalued' by their own home as Labour urged to tackle 'big wealth'
London skyline shows financial district
Wealth

Millions of Brits 'outvalued' by their own home as Labour urged to tackle 'big wealth'

Benefit claimants need enough money to buy food if Labour wants to 'get Britain working again'
dwp's liz kendall
Benefits

Benefit claimants need enough money to buy food if Labour wants to 'get Britain working again'

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

Here's how to donate to a food bank near you this winter
a man sorts food donations into crates at a food bank
Food banks

Here's how to donate to a food bank near you this winter

Labour warned against 'scare tactics' after revealing Jobcentres reform plan to 'get Britain working'
keir starmer
Department for Work and Pensions

Labour warned against 'scare tactics' after revealing Jobcentres reform plan to 'get Britain working'

Millions of Brits keep their homes at dangerously low temperatures – and it's saving less than they think
energy crisis
Energy Bills

Millions of Brits keep their homes at dangerously low temperatures – and it's saving less than they think

Keir Starmer's pledge on benefits 'deepens stigma' and leads to 'fear and shame'
keir starmer
Benefits

Keir Starmer's pledge on benefits 'deepens stigma' and leads to 'fear and shame'

'Living is expensive': DWP winter fuel cuts forcing pensioners to choose between heating and eating
Chancellor Rachel Reeve standing at a podium and smiling
Winter fuel payment

'Living is expensive': DWP winter fuel cuts forcing pensioners to choose between heating and eating

Winter fuel benefit cuts will send pensioners to hospital, DWP warned: 'It's a political choice'
a view from above of an older person with white hair eating out of a pot
Winter fuel payment

Winter fuel benefit cuts will send pensioners to hospital, DWP warned: 'It's a political choice'

Ghosts star Charlotte Ritchie: 'It's a tragedy people can't afford their essentials'
Charlotte Ritchie at Trussell food bank
Food banks

Ghosts star Charlotte Ritchie: 'It's a tragedy people can't afford their essentials'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'This cannot go on': Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time
food bank
Food banks

'This cannot go on': Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time

DWP admits winter fuel payment cuts will plunge tens of thousands of pensioners into poverty
Labour prime minister Keir Starmer
Winter fuel payment

DWP admits winter fuel payment cuts will plunge tens of thousands of pensioners into poverty

More than 16 million people in poverty, report finds – with deprivation at highest level in decades
Social Justice

More than 16 million people in poverty, report finds – with deprivation at highest level in decades

Energy bills set to rise in January as millions 'dangerously' rationing heating
a woman sitting in a bed wrapped in a duvet
Energy bills

Energy bills set to rise in January as millions 'dangerously' rationing heating

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