Today (Wednesday November 26, 2025) Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP announced in the Autumn Budget that, from April 2026, the Government will be lifting the two-child benefit cap. The cap was imposed in 2...

Attempted cuts to PIP had left northern communities "feeling under attack," a report says

Deprived and coastal areas to get extra cash this year for staff and resources in effort to improve health outcomes

Click here to download the Ageing in the North report Older people in the North of England are more likely to be poorer, less healthy, physically inactive, lonely and in poor housing – resulting in mi...

Charities broadly welcome the plans, saying they hope it is a sign of more to come.

Child poverty is running rampant across Britain.

Research also shows deprived areas have up to 25 times as many bookmakers and pawnbrokers as affluent high streets

Chancellor’s welfare cuts set to plunge 250,000 people into poverty

The worst reforms since George Osborne will teach voters that politicians really are all the same. Is it worth it? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Read the report here At the Labour Party Conference in 2024, Health Equity North hosted a roundtable to address the severe health and socioeconomic inequalities faced by women in the North of England....

The story of former Amazon worker Karolina Sobczak reveals much about the people who keep our society running – at huge personal cost, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty