Majority of low-income families with children relying on food banks
Families with children are most likely to rely on food banks, making up half of those who use them, a new study reveals. Seven out of 10 families who receive
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Tag: Poverty / Austerity
Celebrity ‘poverty tourism’ forces change to Comic Relief on-location appeals
Celebrities will take a back seat on Comic Relief’s on-location appeals following complaints about “poverty tourism”. The moves comes after an appeal fronted by Ed Sheeran for Comic Relief last
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More than one million Scots classed as living in poverty, new figures show
One million Scots are living in poverty after they have paid their rent or mortgage, new figures have revealed. Scottish Government statistics showed that in 2016-17 1,020,000 individuals were classed
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Nearly 80,000 of households in England living in temporary accomodation
The number of households in England in temporary accommodation has increased by nearly two thirds since the start of the decade, Government figures show. On December 31 last year 78,930
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Working with people on low incomes ‘life-changing’ says actor on launch of credit-cost initiative
Hollywood star Michael Sheen has said working with people struggling on low incomes has been literally “life-changing”. The actor spoke on Tuesday as he launched the End High Cost Credit
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Council placed homeless woman in ‘squalid’ accommodation miles away from vital support
An older woman was left in temporary accommodation that was ‘at best shabby, dirty and in disrepair,’ miles away from her GP and social networks because Rother District Council had
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Campaigning MP urges Chancellor to set up children’s funeral fund
Philip Hammond has been urged to help grieving parents whose “lives are forever blighted in darkness” by establishing a children’s funeral fund. Carolyn Harris (pictured) said such a fund was
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Tory reforms see many children ‘condemned to start life in poverty’, equality watchdog
Many children “will be condemned to start life in poverty” as a result of Government changes to taxes and social security, a major new report has warned. Watchdog the Equality
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Living in wrong part of town can shorten ‘healthy life’ by more that 25 years
How long men and women enjoy a healthy life can vary by more than 25 years depending on the individual part of a town or city in which they live,
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Almost quarter of people in Wales living in poverty – highest in the UK
Nearly a quarter of people in Wales are living in poverty – the highest rate in the UK, a report has claimed. Despite an overall gradual decline in the number
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