Care leavers could get free prescriptions and bus fares as part of plans to boost government support for vulnerable young people, PoliticsHome understands.

Veterans Aid, the national frontline charity for veterans in crisis or facing homelessness, will once again be operating an emergency service throughout the Christmas holiday period.   

As the farming industry gets ready to protest changes to agricultural property relief (APR), they can count on construction to understand their concerns.

A new Labour MP has said society no longer encourages men to be “gentlemen” and he believed “old-school traditional values” should be re-established around positive masculinity.

Cases of child criminal exploitation have increased sharply in the last two years, a new analysis shared with PoliticsHome shows.

The Tory performance with British Hindu and British Chinese voters on 4 July was one of the very few bright spots for the party. But our analysis suggests that a strategy of going after Reform voters could cost the Conservatives support with these groups.

New Labour MP Peter Lamb talks to Sienna Rodgers about his fears over the Chagos deal, siding with the left on Gaza, and why all housing association properties should be nationalised

Peter Lamb, Labour MP for Crawley, has called for nationalising housing association properties as the “lowest-cost” way of boosting council housing.

A new Labour MP who was a deputy head teacher before being elected says families are turning up to schools with their belongings having been evicted from their homes. 

New University of Manchester report stresses the importance of making informed, long-term decisions on the UK’s infrastructure

It is now six years since the redevelopment of the charity Veterans Aid's New Belvedere House 'hostel' was completed – a facility that has broken the mould in terms of transforming homeless veterans’ lives. At a time when so many aspects of social care and wellbeing are under pressure CEO Professor Hugh Milroy asks why standout successes are often overlooked – particularly when their effectiveness has clear implications for the future.

When I was much younger, in my first job working in politics, a senior colleague loudly suggested that I use a "garden rake" to "sort out" my Afro hair.

Labour MP Sarah Owen has said the use of noisy fireworks is becoming “unneighbourly” as she leads a cross-party effort to restrict their sale to the public.

A new Labour MP is set to go up against a professional MMA fighter, all in the name of charity. Will Stone tells Tali Fraser about the battle ahead, and why he has a 20 per cent chance of coming out on top

As the Labour Party get ready to deliver their first UK budget for fifteen years, the nation has been briefed that there is a £22 billion black hole it needs to fill.

Ministers are banking on the AI revolution to drive everything from NHS reform to economic growth. Peter Kyle tells Tali Fraser about his efforts to keep the ‘Ferrari’ on the road. Photography by Louise Haywood-Schiefer

West Midlands Mayor Richard Parker believes civil servants in Whitehall are “resistant” to supporting government plans for more regional devolution, and hopes the Budget will allow mayors greater flexibility over their own finances and projects.

This is a critical opportunity to address one of the most urgent and heartbreaking crises unfolding in the world today: the conflict in Sudan.

Football clubs will be named and shamed if they do not promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) targets under a strengthened Football Governance Bill.

A new report setting out the severe pressures facing the special educational needs system (SEND) ought to be a “watershed moment” for Westminster, a former children’s commissioner has warned.

From the age of seven, I was raised by my great aunt.

New Sport England research calculates that inequalities in the activity levels of adults cost £15.6bn a year. With a renewed political will to tackle inequalities and reduce the burden on public health, the research makes the unequivocal social and economic case for getting everyone active.