by Jimmy Tse | May 21, 2026 | Immigration, News
Net migration stood at 171,000 in the year ending December 2025, down from an updated estimate of 331,000 in the previous year. The ONS said the latest level was last seen when the UK’s post-Brexit immigration system was introduced in early 2021, while Covid-19 travel...
by Jimmy Tse | May 21, 2026 | Immigration, Real Voices
Displaced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Yana Smaglo did not merely rebuild her life in Britain. She founded her own business NENYA, worked through loss, responsibility, and an unfinished sense of home. She had fifteen minutes. There was no time to decide what...
by Jimmy Tse | May 19, 2026 | Crafting Change, Homelessness, Social Exclusion
From the outside, St Wilfrid’s Centre looks almost like a fortress. Located on Queen’s Road, Lowfield, its red brick walls sit quietly at Sheffield’s cityscape, giving little away of what happens inside. But step through its door, the atmosphere shifts immediately. ...
by Jimmy Tse | May 15, 2026 | Homelessness, News
The government has pledged new legislation to increase long-term investment in social housing, with measures aimed at protecting existing stock and supporting the building of new social rented homes. The Social Housing Renewal bill was one of the key social policies...
by Jimmy Tse | May 15, 2026 | Social Exclusion, Top Story, Uproute Toolkit
Social exclusion is often reduced to poverty, homelessness or personal failure. But in Britain today, it is a wider process of being cut off from work, housing, healthcare, digital access, relationships and public life. What is social exclusion? Put simply, social...
