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Supported housing saves the taxpayer billions – but it’s facing an urgent financial crisis
Suzannah Young

Supported housing saves the taxpayer billions – but it’s facing an urgent financial crisis

Ex-homeless people, care leavers, veterans and disabled people can live independently with the help of supported housing. But the sector is in financial crisis and needs urgent action to prevent thousands of vulnerable people losing their homes, writes the National Housing Federation’s Suzannah Young

Labour’s next round of benefit cuts risks hitting 600,000 disabled people
Welfare

Labour’s next round of benefit cuts risks hitting 600,000 disabled people

‘The threat and application of sanctions looms large for standard universal credit claimants’

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

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

A study has found that pupils miss the equivalent of 23 million days of school each year as a consequence of hygiene poverty

Most people with ADHD do not tell their employer – here’s why we must break the silence
Louise Ansari

Most people with ADHD do not tell their employer – here’s why we must break the silence

Inside the mission to feed the UK’s hungry kids in the holidays: ‘If we had to buy food we wouldn’t survive’
Holiday hunger

Inside the mission to feed the UK’s hungry kids in the holidays: ‘If we had to buy food we wouldn’t survive’

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Gladiators star Zack George: ‘We want my son’s short time on this Earth to have a positive effect’
Charity

Gladiators star Zack George: ‘We want my son’s short time on this Earth to have a positive effect’

The UK has a fertility crisis – here’s how we solve it
Professor Geeta Nargund

The UK has a fertility crisis – here’s how we solve it

‘It will be a crisis’: Adult social care pushed to the brink by government’s overseas care worker ban
Social care

‘It will be a crisis’: Adult social care pushed to the brink by government’s overseas care worker ban

Mental Health Bill leaves ‘dangerous gaps’ which could threaten our human rights
Dr Thomas Peck

Mental Health Bill leaves ‘dangerous gaps’ which could threaten our human rights

Calls for major change to health and safety laws as UK battered by yet another heatwave
Heatwave

Calls for major change to health and safety laws as UK battered by yet another heatwave

Cuts will rip the heart out of Samaritans at a time when it’s never been needed more
Laura Cooke

Cuts will rip the heart out of Samaritans at a time when it’s never been needed more

Comedian Rob Auton on staying motivated at the Edinburgh Fringe: ‘The effort is the best part’
Edinburgh Fringe

Comedian Rob Auton on staying motivated at the Edinburgh Fringe: ‘The effort is the best part’

An old football sticker book turns pub night into a nostalgia fest
Sam Delaney

An old football sticker book turns pub night into a nostalgia fest

This prison theatre project prepares young offenders for life on the outside: ‘Art can be a game changer’
Prisons

This prison theatre project prepares young offenders for life on the outside: ‘Art can be a game changer’

Measles, whooping cough and infection: Why children’s health is getting worse in the UK
Child poverty

Measles, whooping cough and infection: Why children’s health is getting worse in the UK

How cancer patients could suffer after Labour’s cuts to universal credit
Millie Light

How cancer patients could suffer after Labour’s cuts to universal credit

How Arsenal is empowering young disabled people through football: ‘It’s one of the best things you can do’
Football

How Arsenal is empowering young disabled people through football: ‘It’s one of the best things you can do’

Disabled Big Issue vendor Jason has fought 21 years for an accessible home. There are millions like him
Our Vendors

Disabled Big Issue vendor Jason has fought 21 years for an accessible home. There are millions like him

Who needs meditation when you have a garden to potter in?
Paul McNamee

Who needs meditation when you have a garden to potter in?

One year on from the riots: The real-world cost of anti-women and anti-refugee politics
Carenza Arnold

One year on from the riots: The real-world cost of anti-women and anti-refugee politics

Is the Timms Review of disability benefit PIP just a tick-box exercise?
Mikey Erhardt

Is the Timms Review of disability benefit PIP just a tick-box exercise?

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Labour has promised to stop poor people dying so early. A Scottish rapper could help them find the way
Health inequalities

Labour has promised to stop poor people dying so early. A Scottish rapper could help them find the way

I’m a social worker – don’t judge me for it
Clair Graham

I’m a social worker – don’t judge me for it

We need to end health inequalities for trans and non-binary people – let’s start with GP services
Louise Ansari

We need to end health inequalities for trans and non-binary people – let’s start with GP services

Few trafficking and modern slavery survivors get counselling. They have to face their trauma alone
Kate

Few trafficking and modern slavery survivors get counselling. They have to face their trauma alone