schools

New Netflix film Steve shows that behind every school exclusion lies a different story
Mission 44 CEO Jason Arthur with the charity's founder Sir Lewis Hamilton. Image: Mission 44
Jason Arthur

New Netflix film Steve shows that behind every school exclusion lies a different story

Jason Arthur, CEO of Lewis Hamilton's charity Mission 44, writes for Big Issue about the urgent need for change on school exclusion – as highlighted in new Netflix film Steve
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?

Meet the primary school children with big ideas to end homelessness in the UK
Homelessness

Meet the primary school children with big ideas to end homelessness in the UK

Shoe Aid, STEPPING UP for footwear Poverty this September
Social Justice

Shoe Aid, STEPPING UP for footwear Poverty this September

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

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Millions of pupils missing school due to hygiene poverty: 'We have reinvented a Victorian problem'
Image of parent washing child's hands in a sink
Hygiene poverty

Millions of pupils missing school due to hygiene poverty: 'We have reinvented a Victorian problem'

Could 16 and 17-year-olds really decide the next election?
Banseka Kayembe

Could 16 and 17-year-olds really decide the next election?

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'

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'

School standards minister: 'We want to change it so nobody has to fight for their education'
Onside takeover

School standards minister: 'We want to change it so nobody has to fight for their education'

School standards minister dodges question from disabled boy about future of his education
Onside Takeover

School standards minister dodges question from disabled boy about future of his education

What was in Rachel Reeves' historic spending review – and what was missing?
Rachel Reeves
Spending review

What was in Rachel Reeves' historic spending review – and what was missing?

'It's an emergency': Why artist Stuart Semple is giving £30k of art supplies to 50 schools in one day
Artist Stuart Semple
Art

'It's an emergency': Why artist Stuart Semple is giving £30k of art supplies to 50 schools in one day

All children on universal credit to get free school meals: 'It will take hunger out of classroom'
Broccoli in a serving hatch
Child poverty

All children on universal credit to get free school meals: 'It will take hunger out of classroom'

How worried should we really be about schools closing in London?
school children at desks
Schools

How worried should we really be about schools closing in London?

Music in schools delivers an essential pathway out of poverty – here's how
Polly Stepan

Music in schools delivers an essential pathway out of poverty – here's how

Big Issue Invest £3m loan secures future for outstanding SEND College
A teacher interacts with a student at Great Oaks College.
Big Issue Invest

Big Issue Invest £3m loan secures future for outstanding SEND College

More and more poor children are missing school since Covid. Here's how to get them back in class
Martin Hodge

More and more poor children are missing school since Covid. Here's how to get them back in class

Letters: Cut, cut, cut benefits... it's the Tory Labour way
Letters

Letters: Cut, cut, cut benefits... it's the Tory Labour way

From fake birds to Andrew Tate: How one group is tackling conspiracy theories in schools
Andrew Tate
Conspiracy theories

From fake birds to Andrew Tate: How one group is tackling conspiracy theories in schools

'I've never been able to afford more than one skirt': Labour's school uniform plan sparks fierce debate
a child stands behind a fence
School uniform

'I've never been able to afford more than one skirt': Labour's school uniform plan sparks fierce debate

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
I should have spent school preparing for the future. Instead I spent it fighting to be included
Olive Watt

I should have spent school preparing for the future. Instead I spent it fighting to be included

'We all deserve magic': Meet the teachers working to bring Christmas joy to children in poverty
kids doing christmas craft activities
Christmas

'We all deserve magic': Meet the teachers working to bring Christmas joy to children in poverty

Children in poverty are missing out on memories in the school holidays. We want to change that
family at kenilworth castle, holding a pumpkin
Emma Revie and Nick Merriman

Children in poverty are missing out on memories in the school holidays. We want to change that

'We're stepping in to help kids eat': Schools forced to dip into their own budgets to feed pupils
children grabbing food off table
Child poverty

'We're stepping in to help kids eat': Schools forced to dip into their own budgets to feed pupils