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Latest figures show 1,210 households in hotels and B&Bs for longer than the six-week legal limitThe number of homeless families being housed in hotels and B&Bs over the legal limit by English councils has doubled within a year, figures reveal.T…
Figures show usage has barely shifted in a year, despite rising food poverty in UKThe government has missed its target to increase the take-up of NHS healthy food vouchers aimed at vulnerable parents of young children, it has emerged, despite soaring g…
Sparta residents are trying to stop the Sandersville railroad and its influential owners from building a spur to a nearby quarryA majority-Black rural community in Georgia is battling to stop a railroad company from seizing private land for a new train…
Campaigners’ anger as 1,173 held despite ministers’ pledge to scrap legislationMore than 1,000 homeless people have been arrested for sleeping rough or begging since the government pledged to scrap the nearly 200-year-old Vagrancy Act, new figures show…
Exclusive: The figure includes one in seven children, with western Sydney suffering the highest rates of child povertyGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastOne million people – including one in seven children – are li…
Letter to the Observer signed by experts from around the world says proper government policies are neededA “growing reliance” on food banks across the world risks discouraging proper state policies to deal with poverty, according to a joint warning iss…
One-fifth of UK population was in relative poverty after first year of pandemic, when support measures scrappedFamilies including 800,000 children were forced to turn to food banks to feed themselves as poverty levels started to rise again after the fi…
Harassment and threats common, finds Citizens Advice survey, which discovers MoJ rules were broken in at least a third of casesMore than 2 million people have been contacted by bailiffs during the cost of living crisis, according to Citizens Advice, wi…
This blog is now closed.Peter Dutton proposes criminalisation of Nazi symbols after Tuesday’s question time stoushGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVoice negotiationsThe referendum machinery legislation will set u…
Liberal and Labor MPs Bridget Archer and Alicia Payne unite in call for welfare boostFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTwo major-party MPs have launched a …