Category: Food banks

Labour backs plans for £15m fund to distribute surplus food from farms

Grant will go towards repackaging food that would go to waste and delivering it to shelters, food banks and charitiesLabour ministers have backed plans for a £15m fund to redistribute food from farms that otherwise go to...

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More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high

Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century• Poverty figures render government numbers too little and action very lateMore than one in three children and...

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Gordon Brown launches London’s first ‘multibank’ amid UK child poverty fears

The ex-PM is opening the new facility supplying food and basic necessities against a backdrop of concerns for the wellbeing of children over the summer holidays The first “multibank” in London, distributing...

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UK children shorter, fatter and sicker amid poor diet and poverty, report finds

Food Foundation says height of five-year-olds falling, child obesity up by a third and type 2 diabetes by a fifth Children across the UK are getting shorter, fatter and sicker amid an epidemic of poor diets, food insecurity and...

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How Britain became a food bank nation

In the first instalment of a special series on the emblems of Tory Britain, the former prime minister Gordon Brown looks at the avoidable epidemic of hunger – which is getting worseIn Leeds, a child fails to turn up at...

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Failure to stem rising cost of formula in UK putting babies at risk, say experts

Leading doctors and charities urge children’s health minister to take action to support struggling familiesFailure to tackle the cost of soaring infant formula is creating a crisis of infant hunger and putting the health...

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More than 1 million UK children experienced destitution last year, study finds

Severe material hardship no longer a rarity, as study reveals impact of benefit cuts and cost of living crisisMore than 1 million children experienced destitution last year – meaning their families could not afford to...

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