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Social exclusion

December 2024

  • The silhouette of a young woman with her baby in a corridor

    ‘We live on Pot Noodles’: rickets hits homeless families with no kitchen

    Families placed in hotels in England are being forced to live on snack foods, putting young people’s health at risk

November 2024

  • Nearly a million pensioners will benefit from the Scottish government’s mitigation of the UK cuts to winter fuel allowance.

    Scottish ministers pledge universal winter fuel payments for pensioners

  • Two young men in front of a block of flats present their forearms to the camera

    The Guardian picture essay
    Hungary’s most deprived people donate blood plasma to survive – photo essay

  • A homeless person in London.

    Homeless people to be given cash in first major UK trial to reduce poverty

  • A child gets school lunch in Pembrokeshire.

    Tell us: have you lived in UK temporary accommodation with children?

  • Winter fuel payment cuts may force 100,000 pensioners ‘below poverty line’

  • More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high

  • Poverty figures render UK government numbers too little and action very late

  • North-east England to unveil £55m package to tackle child poverty

  • UK charity declares ‘refugee homelessness emergency’ as numbers hit record high

  • Many NHS staff likely to use ‘conscience clause’ if assisted dying legalised, say doctors

  • The Audio Long Read
    10 years of the long read: The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground (2020) – podcast

  • Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds

  • New council housing in England may be removed from right to buy scheme

  • UK austerity policies ‘increased rate of premature and low birth weight babies’

October 2024

  • A woman pours a man a cup of tea

    Housing, social care and universities: who lost out in the UK budget?

    Rachel Reeves made funding the NHS a priority but people working in other areas said they were disappointed
  • Person in sleeping bag on pavement next to bins with red 98 bus pulled up alongside with woman about to board bus

    Rough sleeping in London hits record high amid predictions of worse to come

    Homelessness charities call for long-term plan and say 18% increase to 4,780 people ‘should incense us all’
    • UK loses out on £19bn in annual GDP growth due to lack of social mobility

    • Rachel Reeves’s first budget offers a chance to break out of the doom loop. Here’s how she should do it

      Jonathan Portes
    • Labour gave us Sure Start to tackle child poverty. Now it should hike tax to keep it

      Polly Toynbee
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