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Food banks at Christmas: ‘They’re thinking about having enough food, not celebrating’
A food bank manager and research and policy director at Trussell speak to Left Foot Forward about food bank use at Christmas.
Labour’s drift to the right could risk Keir Starmer being a one-term prime minister
The government's honeymoon has been short lived.
Home Office move-on period: Refugees and charities ‘relieved’, but extension must be permanent
Refugees faced move-on periods that were too short to do basic things like open a bank account and find housing. Will the new 56-day move-on period help?
‘Starmer must avoid Biden’s strategic mistake’: Reactions to Keir Starmer’s ‘Plan for Change’
‘Unless economic growth delivers material benefits for more of us, Starmer risks suffering the same fate as US President Biden.’
100,000 more children set to be in poverty within five years, new analysis shows
Currently, 4.3 million children in the UK live in poverty, with 1 million experiencing destitution.
Healthcare crisis for women in the North East raised in parliament
Girls aged four to six in the North East can expect to live in good health for only 59.7 years, the lowest healthy life expectancy in England, and six years less than those in the South East.