learning and employment

The UK can’t achieve growth and lower poverty with a million young people locked out of opportunity
young people with skateboards sat around on phones
Richard Rigby

The UK can’t achieve growth and lower poverty with a million young people locked out of opportunity

Any serious plan for renewal must put young people at its heart, starting with helping more than one million out of employment, education or training reach a more positive future, writes The King's Trust's RIchard Rigby
What are Andy Burnham's cost of living plans and what will they mean for you?
Andy Burnham as he arrived at 10 Downing Street.
Cost of living

What are Andy Burnham's cost of living plans and what will they mean for you?

Here's what Andy Burnham can do right away to address homelessness and NEETs crisis
Andy Burnham
Politics

Here's what Andy Burnham can do right away to address homelessness and NEETs crisis

UK workers are facing the same problems across the country. We should join together to fight them
Carolyn Hayman

UK workers are facing the same problems across the country. We should join together to fight them

Making gig work pay: How to manage your money with an irregular income
Money

Making gig work pay: How to manage your money with an irregular income

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
How Britain failed one million NEET young people: 'We're wasting a generation’s talent'
Young people walking in the street
Youth unemployment

How Britain failed one million NEET young people: 'We're wasting a generation’s talent'

There has been a 60% rise in Big Issue vendors aged 18 to 24 since 2022: 'I wanted to be a lawyer'
22-year-old Big Issue vendor Paula Langa. Image: Exposure Photo Agency
Young people

There has been a 60% rise in Big Issue vendors aged 18 to 24 since 2022: 'I wanted to be a lawyer'

Beyond British seaside holidays: How homelessness and poverty go unseen in coastal communities
St Ives harbour and beach, Cornwall.
Coastal poverty

Beyond British seaside holidays: How homelessness and poverty go unseen in coastal communities

'Give people a chance': Monica Galetti on the restaurant helping people out of homelessness
Monica Galetti is the new executive chef of 130 Primrose.
Food

'Give people a chance': Monica Galetti on the restaurant helping people out of homelessness

General Strike at 100: Could workers ever take action on the same scale again?
The General Strike in 2026
Activism

General Strike at 100: Could workers ever take action on the same scale again?

Youth unemployment has a 'long-term scarring effect' affecting finances and health decades later
Teenager on a laptop
Employment

Youth unemployment has a 'long-term scarring effect' affecting finances and health decades later

'I have not been to school since I was 13. The system is failing kids with special education needs'
Katie Nellist
Katie Nellist

'I have not been to school since I was 13. The system is failing kids with special education needs'

Cornwall is reinventing its mining past to take on China. But can lithium deliver a return to glory?
Earth Day

Cornwall is reinventing its mining past to take on China. But can lithium deliver a return to glory?

Birmingham bin workers’ strike, one year on: Inside the forgotten neighbourhoods lined with rubbish
rubbish lines the streets in Birmingham with graffiti saying 'remember the poor' on a wall
Employment

Birmingham bin workers’ strike, one year on: Inside the forgotten neighbourhoods lined with rubbish

Perfect Show for Rachel presents a joyful world of possibility for disabled people
Rachel and her sister Flo and their mother, who also stars in the show. Image: Ikin Yum
Theatre

Perfect Show for Rachel presents a joyful world of possibility for disabled people

Disabled journalist fears ‘secret cuts’ to Access to Work could force her out of employment
Access to Work

Disabled journalist fears ‘secret cuts’ to Access to Work could force her out of employment

There's a blind spot with the SEND reforms which could push more families into poverty
Image of child in school
Lisa Mainwaring

There's a blind spot with the SEND reforms which could push more families into poverty

Mike Soutar: Employers are sitting on their hands when it comes to hiring. How can we change that?
Big Issue ambassador Mike Soutar.
Mike Soutar

Mike Soutar: Employers are sitting on their hands when it comes to hiring. How can we change that?

Why don't people just get a job? The answer is far from simple
The green job centre plus sign hangs above a wet and dirty concrete architrave
Juliette Flach

Why don't people just get a job? The answer is far from simple

Labour's SEND reforms will live or die in classrooms. Families know what works
Diane Johnson

Labour's SEND reforms will live or die in classrooms. Families know what works

What will the SEND reforms mean for families and their disabled children?
Children in a classroom
SEND

What will the SEND reforms mean for families and their disabled children?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
It was a traumatic, hellish fight trying to get SEND support for my daughter
Gaby and David Boast and their daughter Nellie.
SEND

It was a traumatic, hellish fight trying to get SEND support for my daughter

I left teaching because I felt eaten up by guilt that I couldn't help SEND children like my own
Sara and her daughter Ava.
SEND

I left teaching because I felt eaten up by guilt that I couldn't help SEND children like my own

My children were out of school for more than a year as we fought to get them SEND support
Elizabeth Padilla
SEND

My children were out of school for more than a year as we fought to get them SEND support

Mainstream school was right for my daughter. SEND changes could cause more harm than good
Sharon Smith and daughter Tanzie.
SEND

Mainstream school was right for my daughter. SEND changes could cause more harm than good