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How fitness and defiance helped Sunderland bounce back from the riots: 'They're not going to beat us'
Community

How fitness and defiance helped Sunderland bounce back from the riots: 'They're not going to beat us'

Keep Active in Sunderland works with the community to improve fitness as a way of improving lives
I'm a social worker – don't judge me for it
Clair Graham

I'm a social worker – don't judge me for it

Baby banks in London have run out of nappies
Emeline, volunteer at Little Village's Brent baby bank holding a pack of pampers
Emily Compston

Baby banks in London have run out of nappies

Number of children in temporary accommodation in England hits new record high
Homelessness

Number of children in temporary accommodation in England hits new record high

24 discounted days out for families on universal credit and other benefits this summer holiday
Summer survival guide

24 discounted days out for families on universal credit and other benefits this summer holiday

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Labour promised to reduce health inequality – here's how they can deliver
Mark Heffernan

Labour promised to reduce health inequality – here's how they can deliver

33 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the summer holidays
kids eat free/ easter holidays
Kids eat free

33 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the summer holidays

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'

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'

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

One in nine children hit by two-child benefit cap: 'The public will not stomach inaction'
A mother and three children.
Child poverty

One in nine children hit by two-child benefit cap: 'The public will not stomach inaction'

The simple reason Nigel Farage has seemingly had a change of heart on benefits
Nigel Farage
Two-child benefit cap

The simple reason Nigel Farage has seemingly had a change of heart on benefits

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'

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'

Refugee children deserve our compassion – and a chance to build safe, happy lives
Children survey the ruins in Khuzaa, Gaza, in 2015.
Lynn Perry

Refugee children deserve our compassion – and a chance to build safe, happy lives

Father's Day: Why it's time to start talking about single dads
Fathers Day

Father's Day: Why it's time to start talking about single dads

This adorable robot is helping us learn more about children, autism and the way humans connect
Autism

This adorable robot is helping us learn more about children, autism and the way humans connect

New film Lollipop powerfully lays bare the 'inhumane' way mothers are cut off from their children
Film

New film Lollipop powerfully lays bare the 'inhumane' way mothers are cut off from their children

'I was dying in silence': How childcare becomes a daily battle for survival for migrant families
Immigration

'I was dying in silence': How childcare becomes a daily battle for survival for migrant families

Reform councillor describing some children in care as 'evil' proves how broken the system really is
Reform UK's Andy Osborn during a Cambridgeshire County Council meeting. Credit: Youtube / Terry Galloway
Sophia Alexandra Hall

Reform councillor describing some children in care as 'evil' proves how broken the system really is

Kids are struggling with anxiety and panic attacks. Could nature be the answer?
Abby with chickens
John Rose

Kids are struggling with anxiety and panic attacks. Could nature be the answer?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
The UK must renew funding for children's vaccines – or else millions of young lives will be at risk
Michael Sheldrick

The UK must renew funding for children's vaccines – or else millions of young lives will be at risk

This is how much caring for a disabled child really costs
Mikey and his sisters Mika and Sky
Dr Abigail Dunn

This is how much caring for a disabled child really costs

People are sharing their childhood dreams after TV's Alice Roberts said she wanted to be a horse
Childhood dreams

People are sharing their childhood dreams after TV's Alice Roberts said she wanted to be a horse

The Traitors' Ash Bibi on fleeing a violent home for a women's refuge at 16: 'There's always hope'
Ash Bibi
Domestic violence

The Traitors' Ash Bibi on fleeing a violent home for a women's refuge at 16: 'There's always hope'

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