This report summarises findings from the February 2025 I-CLAIM survey of 1,147 UK adults, exploring public knowledge of irregular migration, how people define it, and their attitudes toward irregular ...

A CHARITY has slammed the UK Government for “ignoring” migrant children in its plan to tackle poverty.

Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus

Labour announced an £84 million cash injection to prevent homelessness and support homeless families over the winter on World Homeless Day.

Urban Childhoods puts children’s and families’ voices centre stage while investigating ways of bringing children’s wellbeing to the fore in planning for urban life. The book explores themes that start...

Podcast Episode · Between Borders · 15/09/2025 · 28m

Campaigners fear plans to make people wait longer for leave to remain could cost tax-paying skilled workers dearly

Podcast Episode · Between Borders · 08/09/2025 · 31m

These Walls Must Fall, our lived-experience-led campaigners, issued the following statement in response to the suspension of the refugee family reunion route.

The world professes reverence for childhood, but hollow platitudes about universal children’s rights aren’t meant for the colonized.

As MPs gather in Westminster for today’s spending review, I will be holding a debate on child poverty and No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF). The discussion could not be more urgent. The debate comes ...

As MPs gather in Westminster for today’s spending review, I will be holding a debate on child poverty and No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF). The discussion could not be more urgent. The debate comes…

With this paper we directly address critiques made of mainstream, self-defined Economic Geography as a ‘male, pale and stale’ subdiscipline, proposing that more constructive conversations require ope....

BASW and SWU jointly call for the immediate lifting of the blockade on Gaza by the Israeli government and the full, safe passage of humanitarian aid by international humanitarian organisations.

I have been living and working in the UK for more than a decade.

The war in Gaza is not only the story of rubble and airstrikes. It is the story of the girl getting her period under bombardment, the mother bleeding in silence and miscarrying on cold floors or givin...

This morning, the government published their long-awaited Immigration White Paper . In it, they announced plans to make it even harder for people living and working here to secure permanent settlemen...

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What can philosophy learn from social movements? In this volume, authors from various philosophical paradigms and disciplines (sociology, history) highlight the unique theoretical and political import...

On the 26th of March 2025, the Chancellor announced the spring statement. It delivered a bleak message: the government is choosing to cut vital support for disabled people and public […]

Child poverty is set to increase under a Labour government for the first time in history and an "alternative path" is needed to stop the rise of Reform, Sir Keir Starmer has been warned.

June Jordan Serendipity, they say. This week, by chance or perhaps because history is a cycle, two crucial texts on the university found their way to me: June Jordan’s Notes of a Barnard Dropout an…

The UK government is set to bring the NHS back under direct political control.

Background Early years interventions are critical to children’s health and development and are emerging as core to public health programmes in the UK and globally. Evaluating such interventions is com...

Despite the clear intersection between the asylum system and homelessness, funding streams for both remain largely separate and insufficient, writes Kirstie Cook, chief executive of the King’s Arms Project charity, as part of the Reset Homelessness…

Precarious Motherhood explores the experiences of racially minoritised mothers living with insecure immigration status and financial hardship in London, UK. It exposes the impact of hostile immigratio...