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Number of children in absolute poverty across UK hits 3.7 million after increases of 200,000 in a year

Poverty increases among children and pensioners across UK

Four million children are still living in poverty in Britain after household wages ‘ground to a complete halt’ over the last year, government figures show

Life expectancy of girls living in England’s poorest areas falls by almost 100 days in five years

Life expectancy gap widens between rich and poor women

Politicians obsessed with Brexit are destroying the lives of young, poor British children

NHS crisis: 200,000 nurses have quit since Tories entered government

‘Desperate’ food poverty rises by 15% in Scotland, shows data

Homeless people kicked out of underpasses next to parliament ‘so MPs can get to work’

Schools funding shortfall of £5.4bn ‘worse than estimated’

Tory Islamophobia row: 15 suspended councillors quietly reinstated

Desperate parents forced to turn to ‘baby banks’ as benefits chaos fuels demand

Child Poverty. UK-wide austerity blamed as predictions put figure at 29% – rather than 18% – in 2023

Government spending on ‘lifeline’ children’s Sure Start centres slashed by nearly £157m in four years

Shortage of GPs will never end, health experts say

Experts warn shortage of GPs will last for at least a decade

NHS staff crisis can’t be fixed just by training more GPs as doctor numbers continue to fall, major report claims

Home Office has utterly failed in immigration detention, MPs find

‘Unbelievably offensive’ Home Office letter quotes bloodthirsty bible verses to ‘prove’ Christianity is NOT a religion of peace as it rejects asylum bid by Iranian convert who wanted to stay in Britain

Home Office refuses Christian convert asylum by quoting Bible passages that ‘prove Christianity is not peaceful’