health and wellbeing

Keir Starmer is watching Adolescence. Here's how his government can stop it happening in real life
Stephen Graham in the Netflix show Adolescence
Domestic abuse

Keir Starmer is watching Adolescence. Here's how his government can stop it happening in real life

DWP minister 'regrets' making disabled people feel anxious over benefit cuts
DWP minister Stephen Timms
Disability benefits

DWP minister 'regrets' making disabled people feel anxious over benefit cuts

The hidden impact of Labour's disability benefit cuts – from carer's allowance to railcards
keir starmer labour leader
Benefits

The hidden impact of Labour's disability benefit cuts – from carer's allowance to railcards

I'm a disabled person claiming benefits – and I've lost all hope in the Labour government
Labour prime minister Keir Starmer
Arjan

I'm a disabled person claiming benefits – and I've lost all hope in the Labour government

End two-child limit on benefits to lift 600,000 kids out of poverty, Labour told: 'We're in a crisis'
Image of child eating/ child poverty uk
Child poverty

End two-child limit on benefits to lift 600,000 kids out of poverty, Labour told: 'We're in a crisis'

Benefit cuts are a 'violation of human rights' which will harm ill and disabled people, Labour warned
DWP minister Liz Kendall
Disability benefits

Benefit cuts are a 'violation of human rights' which will harm ill and disabled people, Labour warned

Cuts, universal credit and PIP: Everything you need to know about Labour's benefits overhaul
Liz Kendall DWP secretary
Benefits

Cuts, universal credit and PIP: Everything you need to know about Labour's benefits overhaul

Compulsory domestic abuse lessons for over 16s could help 'prevent misogynistic murders', MPs told
MP Zarah Sultana with campaigners from Make It Mandatory.
Domestic abuse

Compulsory domestic abuse lessons for over 16s could help 'prevent misogynistic murders', MPs told

Too many children with special educational needs are living in poverty. It's a waste of public funds
A group photo of Changing Realities after focused SEND meeting with Bridget Philipson on 13 March. Image: Supplied
Joanne Barker-Marsh

Too many children with special educational needs are living in poverty. It's a waste of public funds

Over 85,000 children in Britain living in extreme poverty: 'There's a sense of hopelessness'
child asleep
Child poverty

Over 85,000 children in Britain living in extreme poverty: 'There's a sense of hopelessness'

'I'll lose my ability to be part of society': Disabled people fear life after Labour's benefit cuts
Disability benefits

'I'll lose my ability to be part of society': Disabled people fear life after Labour's benefit cuts

Disabled and mentally ill people feel 'broken and without hope' over Labour's plans for benefits
rachel reeves and keir starmer
Readers' views

Disabled and mentally ill people feel 'broken and without hope' over Labour's plans for benefits

My son was stabbed to death by his girlfriend. He didn't know how to escape domestic abuse
Domestic abuse

My son was stabbed to death by his girlfriend. He didn't know how to escape domestic abuse

Writer and comedian Mark Steel: 'Doing my car tax was more stressful than having cancer'
Letter to my younger self

Writer and comedian Mark Steel: 'Doing my car tax was more stressful than having cancer'

Doctors ignored me, a disabled woman, when deciding if I'd be resuscitated in the pandemic
Rahima Begum

Doctors ignored me, a disabled woman, when deciding if I'd be resuscitated in the pandemic

The government has a choice: Slash benefits and destroy lives or support disabled people
Keir Starmer
James Watson-O’Neill

The government has a choice: Slash benefits and destroy lives or support disabled people

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
How dance is helping women heal after being diagnosed with cancer
Emily Jenkins

How dance is helping women heal after being diagnosed with cancer

'Being alive is utterly exhausting': How Covid forced people out of work and onto benefits
long-covid patient pictures
Five years since the pandemic

'Being alive is utterly exhausting': How Covid forced people out of work and onto benefits

Working from home vital for disabled people to keep a job, DWP told ahead of benefit cuts
Working from home

Working from home vital for disabled people to keep a job, DWP told ahead of benefit cuts

Cuts to benefits would be a 'grave mistake', Keir Starmer warned by his own MPs
keir starmer
Benefits

Cuts to benefits would be a 'grave mistake', Keir Starmer warned by his own MPs