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Teachers fear more than half a million children will go hungry this summer: ‘It just can’t go on’
Holiday Hunger Alamy
Food poverty

Teachers fear more than half a million children will go hungry this summer: ‘It just can’t go on’

Up to 675,000 school-aged children in England facing holiday hunger this summer – nearly identical to 2024 levels
The 2012 Olympics promised to regenerate East London. What went wrong?
Regeneration

The 2012 Olympics promised to regenerate East London. What went wrong?

Revealed: Why Greater Manchester Police refuses to give life-saving overdose drug to officers
A syringe of naloxone
Drugs

Revealed: Why Greater Manchester Police refuses to give life-saving overdose drug to officers

Top Stories

Childcare costs families £1,000 per child in the summer holidays: ‘It makes me feel sick’
Childcare

Childcare costs families £1,000 per child in the summer holidays: ‘It makes me feel sick’

DWP taking cash back from benefit claimants it overpaid is ‘just like carer’s allowance scandal’
Benefits

DWP taking cash back from benefit claimants it overpaid is ‘just like carer’s allowance scandal’

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

Cost of living crisis

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Childcare costs families £1,000 per child in the summer holidays: ‘It makes me feel sick’
A group of children playing football together.
Childcare

Childcare costs families £1,000 per child in the summer holidays: ‘It makes me feel sick’

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?
Cost of living crisis

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?

Brits overwhelmingly back a wealth tax on the ultra-rich. Would it work in the UK?
Economics
Wealth Tax

Brits overwhelmingly back a wealth tax on the ultra-rich. Would it work in the UK?

I’m a mum impacted by the two-child limit on benefits. Labour must do what’s right and end it
child playing
Sara

I’m a mum impacted by the two-child limit on benefits. Labour must do what’s right and end it

Advice & support

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Energy bills are rising this April. What do I do if I can’t afford to pay?
energy bills
Cost of living crisis

Energy bills are rising this April. What do I do if I can’t afford to pay?

Water bills are going up in April 2025. Here’s what to do if you’re struggling to pay
Cost of living crisis

Water bills are going up in April 2025. Here’s what to do if you’re struggling to pay

DWP payment dates in March 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
image of cash
Benefits

DWP payment dates in March 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

DWP benefit payment dates in February 2025 – and how much benefits will go up this year
picture of money next to a clock representing dwp benefit payment dates
Benefits

DWP benefit payment dates in February 2025 – and how much benefits will go up this year

Facts and figures

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Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?
Cost of living crisis

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?

DWP payment dates in May 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
UK money
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP payment dates in May 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

Energy bills are rising this April. What do I do if I can’t afford to pay?
energy bills
Cost of living crisis

Energy bills are rising this April. What do I do if I can’t afford to pay?

DWP payment dates in April 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
money
Benefits

DWP payment dates in April 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

Food banks

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Inside the food banks seeing ‘highest demand ever seen’ as cost of living harms families
Food preparation and the cafe at Granville Community Kitchen in North West London. Image: Mary Turner/ IFAN
Food banks

Inside the food banks seeing ‘highest demand ever seen’ as cost of living harms families

Can Labour end the need for food banks? The new Crisis and Resilience Fund is a welcome start
food banks
Sabine Goodwin

Can Labour end the need for food banks? The new Crisis and Resilience Fund is a welcome start

Having to go to a food bank sticks with you – it’s time politicians knew about it
Trussell campaigner Amie Alissa Watson
Amie Alissa Watson

Having to go to a food bank sticks with you – it’s time politicians knew about it

Council tries to evict food bank – despite referring 95% of its users: ‘There is nowhere to go’
Food banks

Council tries to evict food bank – despite referring 95% of its users: ‘There is nowhere to go’

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Thousands of children find hope in tent schools in Gaza: ‘We try to make the students smile’
Students at Gaza Great Minds
Gaza

Thousands of children find hope in tent schools in Gaza: ‘We try to make the students smile’

Inside the food banks seeing ‘highest demand ever seen’ as cost of living harms families
Food preparation and the cafe at Granville Community Kitchen in North West London. Image: Mary Turner/ IFAN
Food banks

Inside the food banks seeing ‘highest demand ever seen’ as cost of living harms families

These Vietnamese adoptees are searching for their birth families ‘before it’s too late’
Marie Maubouche
Adoption

These Vietnamese adoptees are searching for their birth families ‘before it’s too late’

Wales’ future generations commissioner warns we’re not doing enough for people yet to be born
Wales future generations commissioner Derek Walker
Future Generations

Wales’ future generations commissioner warns we’re not doing enough for people yet to be born

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