Jackie Long is Channel 4 News Social Affairs Editor. She joined the programme in 2011, following more than two decades at the BBC. Most recently she was Correspondent at Newsnight, and she previously worked on The World at One, PM and Five Live.
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A children's charity warns that the prospects for young carers are being damaged because they are not given enough support.
Operation Bullfinch suggests sexual exploitation is a problem particular to the Pakistani Muslim community. But could it be wider than that?
Pensions minister Steve Webb tells Channel 4 News reforms announced on Monday, which will deny pensions to thousands who have "never set foot in this country", are not a reaction to Ukip successes.
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Margaret Thatcher divided opinion like no other prime minister. Jackie Long speaks to Brian Thwaites, a Labour voter who became a lifelong Tory after seizing the chance to buy his own council home.
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The government has labelled the 20-year-old disability living allowance outdated, but its proposed replacement has not been widely welcomed. Social affairs editor Jackie Long explains the changes.
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Is Mick Philpott, found guilty of the manslaughter of six of his children, the perpetrator of an extraordinary crime - or an illustration of what has gone wrong with the benefits system?
This is the moment when we get George Osborne's famed fairytale scrounger, idling in bed with the curtains drawn all day, up and off his backside and into work. Or do we?
Thousands of Syrians fled to Jordan's Zataari refugee camp to escape violence at home. But now women and children live in fear of kidnap, rape and sham marriages in the camp meant to keep them safe.
When Iain Duncan Smith came to Easterhouse in Glasgow more than a decade ago, he pledged to change the system to help some of Britain's poorest. But the change has not been what residents hoped for.
The reality for many is a hugely stressful fight to get something that you might hope would be a given - a place at school where your child is safe, happy and getting the best possible education.
The government is taking emergency action after the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of a graduate that unpaid work schemes are legally flawed.
It's hard not to avoid a subtext in the government's new council tax support scheme, that it's part of a move to encourage - or push - people back into work.
Is "Govian" a word? Obviously it's not but I think it ought to be. For today's A-level reforms, announced by the secretary of state for education, are, well...very Govian.
Schools are not allowed to interview prospective parents, but that has not stopped some academies from engaging in some creative ways of selecting potential pupils.
Skivers versus strivers? It's not as simple as that - go to Newcastle and you find many people desperately searching for work and anxious not to be stigmatised as scroungers.
The Dutch call them "loverboys" - men who groom women into relationships, then force them into prostitution. Jackie Long met Tom, British father of one such girl, as he tried to rescue his daughter.
The Work Programme figures are not a disaster, says the employment minister. But not one of the 18 providers met the government's end of first year minimum target on sustainable work.
The company and Work and Pensions insisted the figures we broadcast were misleading and incomplete and we should wait for their official numbers. Well the wait is nearly over.
Three years on from an abuse case that shocked the nation, an Ofsted report criticises Doncaster's child protection arrangements as inadequate.
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After a Channel 4 News investigation revealed that A4E has failed to meet its Work Programme targets, the head of one charity involved in the programme claims it may now be unsustainable.
