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DWP ramps up AI use to ‘bring the future to the welfare system’ and push people into work
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP ramps up AI use to ‘bring the future to the welfare system’ and push people into work

Gen Z want to buy houses, smoke weed and do crimes, report finds. What does this mean for UK’s future?
Generation Z

Gen Z want to buy houses, smoke weed and do crimes, report finds. What does this mean for UK’s future?

Post-Brexit border checks to cost £4.7bn. Here’s how that money could be better spent
Brexit

Post-Brexit border checks to cost £4.7bn. Here’s how that money could be better spent

Archbishop of Canterbury joins growing calls for end to ‘cruel’ and ‘immoral’ two-child benefit cap
Two-child benefit cap

Archbishop of Canterbury joins growing calls for end to ‘cruel’ and ‘immoral’ two-child benefit cap

Rewilding is bringing creatures great and small back to UK – but a lack of funds is holding it back
Rewilding

Rewilding is bringing creatures great and small back to UK – but a lack of funds is holding it back

FOSO is the new FOMO: Why are we so afraid to switch off and be out of office?
Work

FOSO is the new FOMO: Why are we so afraid to switch off and be out of office?

Almost no recorded cases of disability benefit fraud despite DWP crackdown: ‘PIP fraud is a non-issue’
Disability benefits

Almost no recorded cases of disability benefit fraud despite DWP crackdown: ‘PIP fraud is a non-issue’

Deaf man awarded £50,000 after ‘oppressive’ and ‘discriminatory’ treatment by DWP
Department for Work and Pensions

Deaf man awarded £50,000 after ‘oppressive’ and ‘discriminatory’ treatment by DWP

All of Keir Starmer’s U-turns and abandoned policy pledges, from child benefits to private schools
Labour

All of Keir Starmer’s U-turns and abandoned policy pledges, from child benefits to private schools

Over 90,000 households threatened with no-fault evictions since Tories promised to ban them
RENTING

Over 90,000 households threatened with no-fault evictions since Tories promised to ban them

Starmer warned over glaring omission in Labour’s six general election pledges: ‘I’m disappointed’
Housing crisis

Starmer warned over glaring omission in Labour’s six general election pledges: ‘I’m disappointed’

‘We are here and we exist’: Inside the neighbourhood offering sanctuary to queer Russians and Ukrainians
Pride

‘We are here and we exist’: Inside the neighbourhood offering sanctuary to queer Russians and Ukrainians

Scottish government is declaring a national housing emergency – but what does it actually mean?
Housing

Scottish government is declaring a national housing emergency – but what does it actually mean?

The UK used to be the most LGBTQ-friendly place in Europe. Now, it’s not even close
LGBTQ+ rights

The UK used to be the most LGBTQ-friendly place in Europe. Now, it’s not even close

Benefits system is ‘utterly failing’ as food bank demand reaches record high: ‘It’s heartbreaking’
Food banks

Benefits system is ‘utterly failing’ as food bank demand reaches record high: ‘It’s heartbreaking’

‘We’re at breaking point’: Food banks see record number of first-time users as demand soars
Food banks

‘We’re at breaking point’: Food banks see record number of first-time users as demand soars

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DWP snooping on benefit claimants’ bank accounts will ‘decimate civil liberties’, campaigners warn
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP snooping on benefit claimants’ bank accounts will ‘decimate civil liberties’, campaigners warn

DWP sparks outcry with plan to hire 2,500 ‘agents’ to investigate universal credit claimants
Benefit fraud

DWP sparks outcry with plan to hire 2,500 ‘agents’ to investigate universal credit claimants

Home Office drops plan to arrest homeless people if they smell
Homelessness

Home Office drops plan to arrest homeless people if they smell

Free school meals: Who is eligible? And how do you apply? Here’s all you need to know
Free school meals

Free school meals: Who is eligible? And how do you apply? Here’s all you need to know