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Labour extends free school meals to 500,000 more children
'Feeding more children every day, for free, is one of the biggest interventions we can make to put more money in parents’ pockets, tackle the stain of poverty, and set children up to learn.'
Over 100 disabled celebrities call for U-turn on disability benefit cuts
They've described the cuts as 'cruelty by policy'
A food parcel every 11 seconds: Charity demands urgent action on hunger
Over the past five years, the number of families with children relying on food parcels has increased by 46 percent.
Gordon Brown reiterates call for government to drop two-child benefit cap
'We’re dealing with a wrong diagnosis of the poverty problem, poverty used to be related to unemployment, it’s now low pay.'
Lord John Bird urges government to step up on poverty to head off Reform threat
Bird warns that unless the government acts now, they will not hold back the rise of Reform at the next general election.
A new bill will lead to mass state surveillance for the most vulnerable. We must act.
This bill grants the government powers of surveillance on the bank accounts of the poor, old, sick and disabled people receiving specified benefits