Families with disabled children left waiting months to get benefits due to DWP delays
Parents holding a child's hand
Benefits

Families with disabled children left waiting months to get benefits due to DWP delays

Family trapped in damp and mouldy horror home for 10 years: 'This family is owed respect'
Londoner Syed Alam shows the hole in his living room
Housing

Family trapped in damp and mouldy horror home for 10 years: 'This family is owed respect'

Renters' Rights Act: Labour's landmark rental reforms receive royal assent and finally become law
affordable housing
Renters' Rights Act

Renters' Rights Act: Labour's landmark rental reforms receive royal assent and finally become law

Dad of boy who died due to mould in flat says he's 'proud' of his son for saving lives
Rochdale toddler Awaab Ishak died due to damp and mould in his social housing flat
Awaab's Law

Dad of boy who died due to mould in flat says he's 'proud' of his son for saving lives

Renters' Rights Bill set to become law – more than 2,300 days since Tories promised evictions reform
Renters could face a further wait to see no-fault evictions scrapped through Renters Reform Bill
Renting

Renters' Rights Bill set to become law – more than 2,300 days since Tories promised evictions reform

Universal credit should increase by 6.2% in 2026. Here's what you need to know
rachel reeves
Universal credit

Universal credit should increase by 6.2% in 2026. Here's what you need to know

Homelessness minister 'shocked' at number of children in temporary accommodation and B&Bs
homelessness minister Alison McGovern
Homelessness

Homelessness minister 'shocked' at number of children in temporary accommodation and B&Bs

DWP to save billions by tackling fraud and error in the benefits system. But at what cost?
Prime minister Keir Starmer and chancellor Rachel Reeves laughing
Benefit fraud

DWP to save billions by tackling fraud and error in the benefits system. But at what cost?

People with learning disabilities are dying 20 years early, report finds: 'They deserve better'
Top left: Chloe Every. Bottom left and right: Charlie Lander and family
Learning disabilities

People with learning disabilities are dying 20 years early, report finds: 'They deserve better'

Number of homeless children in England hits yet another record high: 'When will this end?'
the shadow of a young girl
Homelessness

Number of homeless children in England hits yet another record high: 'When will this end?'

I turned my experience of homelessness into my debut fantasy novel. It helped me work through it
Emmaus Salford's Lucy
Homelessness

I turned my experience of homelessness into my debut fantasy novel. It helped me work through it

Anti-abortion groups have received funds from the UK government and National Lottery
A chancellor of the exchequer holding the briefcase containing the government's budget.
Abortion

Anti-abortion groups have received funds from the UK government and National Lottery

Labour deputy hopeful Lucy Powell on benefit cuts, landlords and Farage: 'There's no quick fix'
Lucy Powell in House of Commons
Politics

Labour deputy hopeful Lucy Powell on benefit cuts, landlords and Farage: 'There's no quick fix'

What is the truth about crisis pregnancy centres? The anti-abortion facilities creeping across Britain
a woman sitting on a couch
Abortion

What is the truth about crisis pregnancy centres? The anti-abortion facilities creeping across Britain

Abortion is close to decriminalisation. But how quickly can rights and progress be rolled back?
abortion rights protest
Abortion

Abortion is close to decriminalisation. But how quickly can rights and progress be rolled back?

Big Issue's greatest interviews in history published in a collection for the first time
big issue the great interviews cover
Big Issue

Big Issue's greatest interviews in history published in a collection for the first time

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Big Issue ambassador Kwajo Tweneboa launches podcast to reveal famous faces' humble beginnings
Kwajo Tweneboa
Podcasts

Big Issue ambassador Kwajo Tweneboa launches podcast to reveal famous faces' humble beginnings

Bear Grylls puts focus on hidden homelessness in new short film: 'We can break the stigma'
Bear Grylls reading a Big Issue magazine in a short film about hidden homelessness
Homelessness

Bear Grylls puts focus on hidden homelessness in new short film: 'We can break the stigma'

Labour pledges homelessness cash boost to help kids in temporary accommodation ahead of winter
a homeless man sleeping rough
Homelessness

Labour pledges homelessness cash boost to help kids in temporary accommodation ahead of winter

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations
Big Issue Invest MD Holger Westphely.
Big Issue Invest

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations