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Health charities and unions lead strong criticism of Sunak's welfare reforms

Leading mental health and poverty charities and unions have strongly criticised Rishi Sunak's planned welfare reforms as “deeply damaging” and an “ ... View article...

Climate change is causing mental health crisis for workers, report claims

Climate change is driving a crisis in workers' mental health, a new global report has claimed. Extreme weather, climate change-induced disasters ... View article...

Poor mental health and long waits for support are fuelling school absence, say charities

Escalating mental health problems among young people and long waits fuel rise in rise in levels of school absence. View article...

Young people's mental health charity rebrands

The young people's mental health charity has rebranded to “respond to the changing world and what young people need now”. View article...

Progressive' Rwanda is safe for gay migrants, UK minister Michael Tomlinson insists

... LGBT people might “face some discrimination in practice in Rwanda”, including from the conservative Christian Church. It quoted one Rwandan gay ... View article...

The threat of Russian law in Georgia

The ruling party, Georgian Dream, is also pushing very Russian-seeming “anti- LGBT ” laws. In November last year, Georgia was granted EU candidacy ... View article...

Group of footballers set to come out as gay on the same day next month, according to reports

Five Bundesliga clubs are supporting the move. A group of professional footballers in Germany are planning on coming as gay on the same day next month ... View article...

Kevin Hart names LGBTQ star who enlightened him over anti-gay remarks

Kevin Hart has spoken of growing as a person after old anti- gay tweets he posted resurfaced, crediting a specific individual with inspiring the change ... View article...

Essex mental health deaths inquiry urges public to participate

The chair of a public inquiry looking into about 2,000 mental health patient deaths has invited applications from core participants. View article...

Tories will keep two-child benefit limit 'if we win the next election'

Official statistics published in March showed child poverty hit record highs last year, with 4.33 million children living in households in relative ... View article...

Many adults feel their salaries can't cover all of their living essentials

But with the UK's average salary of £29,669 somewhat short of this, many feel they are being pushed ever closer to hygiene poverty . The scale of ... View article...

Average UK salary falls almost £2,000 short of amount needed to cover essentials, study finds

“We know hygiene poverty disproportionately affects those already struggling, but the research shows that financial difficulties are now impacting ... View article...