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Report calls for urgent reform to NHS services with some people unable to access care said to be using pliers to extract teethNHS dental services are not fit for purpose and need urgent reform, according to MPs who have warned that people are resorting…
Exclusive: Data shows policy, deepening poverty among low-income families, affects about 1.5 million children Labour has come under fresh pressure to vow to scrap the two-child benefit cap after it emerged one in four children in some of England and Wa…
Charity identifies ‘triple shock’ of Covid, austerity and cost of living as premature deaths increaseA growing number of disadvantaged and vulnerable women living in one of the poorest parts of England are dying prematurely because public services are …
The Taliban is outlawing salons across the country, ordering them to close in one month and putting thousands of women out of work.
Pandemic’s £20 benefit uplift led to sharp fall in households living in poverty but replacement is far less effectiveThe scrapping of the government’s £20-a-week pandemic boost to universal credit has set back the fight against poverty and led to an in…
Thinktank challenges view that those taking early retirement under Covid were relatively well offHalf of older adults who left the UK workforce amid mass redundancies in the first year of the Covid pandemic ended up falling into relative poverty, accor…
Labour leader’s comments come as he sets out party’s plans to improve education and opportunityUK politics live – latest updatesA Labour government would focus on ending poverty just as strongly as Tony Blair’s 1997 administration, Keir Starmer has sai…
Labour leader will argue against snobbery of ‘vocational’ and ‘academic’ education, saying young people need bothBritain needs to shatter its snobbish “class ceiling” that prevents children from getting ahead, Keir Starmer is to argue in a speech setti…
Johnny Mercer says food bank use not an accurate measure of poverty after reports of some military personnel relying on them UK politics live – latest updatesThe use of food banks is a personal decision for some people and not an accurate measure of le…
A decade of cumulative funding cuts means colleges lack resources to meet students’ needsFurther education students in England are struggling in “extreme poverty”, forced to work excessive hours in insecure jobs to support themselves and their families…