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Manchester’s Museum of Austerity uses AR to depict real people with disabilities who fell through society’s safety netIt is impossible to look away from the shimmering figures that emerge in what appears at first to be an empty room. And that is the po…
Inequalities between rich and poor areas and white and black communities widening, according to child mortality dataBlack babies in England are almost three times more likely to die than white babies after death rates surged in the last year, according…
Weary of the day-to-day slog of being home secretary, perhaps Suella would enjoy living in a tentEverything just felt wrong. All the joy had been sucked out of Suella Braverman’s life. The early mornings at home used to be a time when she connected wit…
Prime minister joins several senior Tories in distancing himself from home secretary’s commentsUK politics live – latest updatesRishi Sunak has declined an offer to repeat Suella Braverman’s claim that homelessness is sometimes a lifestyle choice.The p…
Crisis, St Mungo’s and other groups write to home secretary to say blaming people for being on the streets increases their risk of harmHomelessness charities have criticised the home secretary after she described sleeping rough as a “lifestyle choice”,…
Exclusive: Special rapporteur Olivier De Schutter to urge ministers to increase welfare spending on visit to country this weekPoverty levels in the UK are “simply not acceptable” and the government is violating international law, the United Nations’ po…
Exclusive: Centrepoint research shows a third are not assessed or cannot get through on helplinesEnough young people sought help for homelessness in the UK last year to fill the Albert Hall 25 times, but tens of thousands are getting no assistance from…
Growing teacher shortage crisis also caused by threat of Ofsted inspection and lack of respect for professionNewly-qualified teachers are planning to quit the UK to teach abroad because of abject pay and conditions in schools at home, new evidence has …
Time constraints, red tape and lack of resources to distribute the money are the main reasons for not allocating cashA multibillion pound fund designed to boost levelling up and replace crucial EU funding is being left unspent by the vast majority of c…
Senior Conservative says home secretary should not discuss complex issue in such terms and advised her to use ‘wiser’ languageSuella Braverman has been rebuked by a senior Tory campaigner on homelessness after the home secretary provoked outrage by des…