Social Justice

Rachel Reeves cracks down on benefit fraud. How much could she really save – and at what cost?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves
Benefit fraud

Rachel Reeves cracks down on benefit fraud. How much could she really save – and at what cost?

Rachel Reeves wants to recoup £1.2 billion from a benefit fraud crackdown. It could make life 'much more stressful' for benefit claimants
What does the end to the two-child limit on benefits mean for you?
Autumn budget

What does the end to the two-child limit on benefits mean for you?

'Landmark moment': Rachel Reeves scraps two-child limit to lift 350,000 kids out of poverty
Autumn budget

'Landmark moment': Rachel Reeves scraps two-child limit to lift 350,000 kids out of poverty

'It's not like a normal pub': How communities are rallying together to breathe new life into dying pubs
Pubs

'It's not like a normal pub': How communities are rallying together to breathe new life into dying pubs

What could Elon Musk do with $1 trillion?
Elon Musk

What could Elon Musk do with $1 trillion?

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How did Rachel Reeves do in her first autumn budget? We ask people on the frontlines, one year on
Chancellor Rachel Reeves
autumn budget

How did Rachel Reeves do in her first autumn budget? We ask people on the frontlines, one year on

Volunteering at a soup kitchen: how to volunteer and what to expect
A plastic tubbed filled with food donations being passed across a table between people
volunteering

Volunteering at a soup kitchen: how to volunteer and what to expect

Prisoners are dying within a day of their release. What's going wrong?
a prisoner behind prison bars
Prisons

Prisoners are dying within a day of their release. What's going wrong?

West Ham star Tomáš Souček: 'We cannot judge homeless people – we can only help'
Football

West Ham star Tomáš Souček: 'We cannot judge homeless people – we can only help'

Older people are surviving, not living. The autumn budget cannot ignore pensioner poverty
Joanna Elson

Older people are surviving, not living. The autumn budget cannot ignore pensioner poverty

Child hunger is a 'damning indictment' of Britain, says Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu
Child hunger

Child hunger is a 'damning indictment' of Britain, says Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?
Cost of living crisis

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?

Scottish minister remains 'concerned' Labour's child poverty strategy will lack impact
Scottish social justice minister Shirley-Anne Somerville on the day she announced Scotland would mitigate the two-child limit.
Child poverty

Scottish minister remains 'concerned' Labour's child poverty strategy will lack impact

'I would go to school shivering': 300,000 children in the UK may go without a coat this winter
Barnardo's installation with 30 coats represents the 300,000 British children who could go without a coat this winter
Child poverty

'I would go to school shivering': 300,000 children in the UK may go without a coat this winter

'I spent my burial fund on repairs': Pensioners in poverty pushed to breaking point by unexpected bills
Pension poverty

'I spent my burial fund on repairs': Pensioners in poverty pushed to breaking point by unexpected bills

What a soup kitchen in London's financial district thinks about a windfall tax on the banks
Banking tax

What a soup kitchen in London's financial district thinks about a windfall tax on the banks

Universal credit sanctions more 'severe' and 'damaging' than criminal fines, report finds
Jobcentre Plus
Universal credit

Universal credit sanctions more 'severe' and 'damaging' than criminal fines, report finds

What is child benefit and can I claim it?
Welfare system

What is child benefit and can I claim it?

Overwhelming majority of Brits say the country feels divided
Culture wars

Overwhelming majority of Brits say the country feels divided

These raw, heartfelt voice notes are straight from Gaza's frontline: 'Even the silence is frightening'
Drawings by child in Gaza who attended Save the Children's child friendly space for mental health and psychosocial support and educational activities.
Gaza

These raw, heartfelt voice notes are straight from Gaza's frontline: 'Even the silence is frightening'

How many children would be lifted out of poverty if the two-child limit was scrapped where you live?
map of united kingdom and ireland
Child poverty

How many children would be lifted out of poverty if the two-child limit was scrapped where you live?

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'I'd be stuck without it': Inside the vital family hubs helping parents as child poverty crisis worsens
Family hubs

'I'd be stuck without it': Inside the vital family hubs helping parents as child poverty crisis worsens

I battled leukaemia and then lost my fiancée to cancer. Here's how I found hope in the grief
Brett, Hannah and their daughter Summer.
Grief

I battled leukaemia and then lost my fiancée to cancer. Here's how I found hope in the grief

Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Brits to have energy bill debt written off
energy bills/ Don't Pay UK/ Image of hob
Energy debt

Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Brits to have energy bill debt written off

Teen scholar trapped in Gaza after being blocked by Home Office from joining her mum in UK
dania and hayat
Gaza

Teen scholar trapped in Gaza after being blocked by Home Office from joining her mum in UK