Category: Food poverty

Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’

Data published on day after Labour announced cuts that campaigners say will hit children and disabled people hardestCampaigners have said it is “morally repugnant” that vulnerable people are bearing the brunt of...

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Half a million children ‘face holiday hunger’ if £1bn crisis fund is ditched

Exclusive: Charities say ending household support fund in England will increase hardship for struggling familiesMore than half a million children will go hungry during school holiday periods from the October half-term if the...

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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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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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Free school meals ‘cut obesity and help reading skills’ in England, study finds

Labour MPs call to extend provision to every primary pupil in England after study finds health and learning improveLabour is facing calls from MPs to back the provision of free school meals for all primary school children in...

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