health and wellbeing

The fashion industry is failing Britain's ageing population – retailers must wake up
A new Government consultation could crack down on fast fashion
Dr Jackie Gray

The fashion industry is failing Britain's ageing population – retailers must wake up

Letters: How many more people with learning difficulties will be abused and scapegoated?
Letters

Letters: How many more people with learning difficulties will be abused and scapegoated?

Your child could be the next Armand Duplantis. But how would you ever know?
Paul McNamee

Your child could be the next Armand Duplantis. But how would you ever know?

This snooker club is giving people with physical and learning disabilities their big break
Sport

This snooker club is giving people with physical and learning disabilities their big break

Adam Buxton: 'Being a carer is the right thing to do – but it's so hard, especially if it's your parents'
Letter To My Younger Self

Adam Buxton: 'Being a carer is the right thing to do – but it's so hard, especially if it's your parents'

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%: 'Millions of us are carers or need care'
carer pushing someone in a wheelchair
Social care

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%: 'Millions of us are carers or need care'

Bailiffs tried taking my kids' toys over council tax debt – people shouldn't have to go through this
Acorn members hand in their open letter at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
Council tax

Bailiffs tried taking my kids' toys over council tax debt – people shouldn't have to go through this

Mental health support while I was in care wasn’t perfect – but now children are being turned away
Boy wearing backpack
Jack Smith

Mental health support while I was in care wasn’t perfect – but now children are being turned away

Two-child benefit cap is 'punishing' working families, Labour warned ahead of child poverty strategy
Three children
Child poverty

Two-child benefit cap is 'punishing' working families, Labour warned ahead of child poverty strategy

GambleAware is closing down. Here's why we decided to put our charity out of action
Anna Hargrave

GambleAware is closing down. Here's why we decided to put our charity out of action

Everyone thinks pensioners are rich. But I'm forced to choose between heating and eating
pensioner
Pensioner poverty

Everyone thinks pensioners are rich. But I'm forced to choose between heating and eating

Revealed: Millions of disabled people went to a food bank last year as Labour plotted benefit cuts
A Trussell food bank worker sorting food parcels. Image: Dan Prince
Food banks

Revealed: Millions of disabled people went to a food bank last year as Labour plotted benefit cuts

Scotland faces growing nitazenes threat as it grapples with drugs deaths crisis
a syringe and pills of drugs
Drugs

Scotland faces growing nitazenes threat as it grapples with drugs deaths crisis

Why I cut ties with my alcoholic dad
Addiction

Why I cut ties with my alcoholic dad

Therapists shouldn't all be white and middle class. We need more from marginalised backgrounds
Image of man on therapy couch
Andrea San Pedro-Lunn

Therapists shouldn't all be white and middle class. We need more from marginalised backgrounds

Acid attack survivor Katie Piper: 'We live in divisive times – our empathy is being lost'
Kindness

Acid attack survivor Katie Piper: 'We live in divisive times – our empathy is being lost'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Teaching five-year-olds about grief isn't morbid – it's necessary
Rowan Humphries-Massey

Teaching five-year-olds about grief isn't morbid – it's necessary

I have arthritis, incontinence and other chronic health conditions. The DWP didn't think I needed PIP
Composite image of PIP recipient Ron Farrington and secretary of state for work and pensions Liz Kendall
Disability benefits

I have arthritis, incontinence and other chronic health conditions. The DWP didn't think I needed PIP

Supported housing saves the taxpayer billions – but it's facing an urgent financial crisis
a person in a wheelchair at a home with a chalkboard
Suzannah Young

Supported housing saves the taxpayer billions – but it's facing an urgent financial crisis

Labour's next round of benefit cuts risks hitting 600,000 disabled people
Prime minister Keir Starmer
Welfare

Labour's next round of benefit cuts risks hitting 600,000 disabled people