People aged over 50 who lose their jobs are significantly more likely to suffer long-term unemployment than other age groups, analysis has revealed. Older workers who lose their jobs are more than twice as...
National Audit Office said number of people needing shelter was eight times greater than thought.
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Campaigners and Labour politicians have criticised “woefully inadequate” food parcels sent to families eligible for free school meals after images of packages were shared online. Read more.
At the time of writing, the city and suburbs of Leicester were under local lockdown due to a spike in Covid-19 cases, with allegations that this was linked to some garment factories that had not only continued to operate as the pandemic took hold...
Child poverty has shot up in towns and cities across the north and Midlands of England, fuelled by stagnating family incomes and the spiralling cost of housing, an analysis has found. Although deprived inner-London boroughs such as Newham and Tower...
My teachers, and the police who beat me up, all thought our past had no value. But now there’s hope things might change.
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In normal circumstances many people move from hospitals into care homes, either temporarily or permanently, with the support of social workers. Yet Covid-19 has proven, devastatingly, to be near impossible to contain in those settings. Care homes...
There has been a surge in the number of UK children registering for free school meals, with an estimated 1 million pupils recently signing up for the first time, according to food poverty campaigners. Analysis by the Food Foundation thinktank...
More than 30 youth and environmental groups are calling on MPs to investigate the “vital” health and education benefits of outdoor learning for children in disadvantaged areas. The coalition is calling on MPs to hold an inquiry into the...
Living standards have plunged for some of the UK’s poorest families during the coronavirus pandemic, with over a third reporting they are financially even worse off since lockdown, according to Save the Children. The charity’s survey of households...
Youth unemployment in Britain is on course to more than triple to the highest levels since the early 1980s, according to a report warning that a “Covid generation” could be lost to long periods out of work. The Resolution Foundation said the young...
As schools returned to some kind of precarious “normality” in September, I found myself reflecting on the experience that Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) children have of the education system. When looking at the performance and attendance of ethnic...
The home secretary, Priti Patel, has reportedly been exploring a range of outlandish plans for sending refugees who arrive on British shores to very faraway places. The week began with a Whitehall leak that revealed officials had been asked to...
