Kat Blackwood is one of the lucky ones. She succeeded in her fight to get disability benefits. Despite suffering with a condition called functional neurological disorder (FND), PTSD, severe anxiety ...

Coming into 2024, Trussell reported a record high number of emergency food parcels had been distributed to people facing hunger across the UK. Between April 2023 and March 2024, food banks in Trussell ...

Homelessness rose for the first time in over a decade in Finland last year. When the news broke in February it made global headlines. Such is the success the country has had in tackling homelessness ...

Disabled children are having to wait for nearly four months to receive benefit payments due to government delays, with hardly any applications being processed on time according to the latest figures.

Growing up in Glasgow, Darren McGarvey lived in a house with an alcoholic mum. There were many traumatic events. Utopias promised never panned out. She didn’t work, and left home when McGarvey was ...

Some parents on benefits could receive up to £4,500 a year if their child takes up an apprenticeship, the government has announced. The bursary will end a quirk in the system that sees these families ...

Google is planning an enormous new data centre, concreting over an important natural habitat and the destruction of a ...

Universal credit is a benefit people receive from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to help with the cost of living. If you are on a low income or are unemployed, you may be eligible for ...

Sir Chris Hoy on the inspiration of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, his battle with prostate cancer and the power of ...

It's four years since Russia invaded Ukraine but efforts to address homelessness bring hope, writes Depaul's Mark McGreevy.

Prime minister Andy Burnham has promised fair pay for care workers and a National Care Service. New figures reveal how much ...

Nature campaigners and wildlife lovers have criticised chancellor Rachel Reeves after she said developers would “not need to worry about bats and newts” in her bid to ramp up growth in the UK economy.