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Child poverty in the UK
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Scotland has had lower poverty rates than UK for two decades, analysis shows

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 July, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

“The biggest single factor is the level of social security available for families.”

Andy Burnham
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Andy Burnham backs living income campaign for Greater Manchester

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 June, 2025

“If you set people up to succeed, they will succeed. We are saying to the government, let us here in Greater Manchester rethink the entire benefits system and turn it from a negative deficit model that’s trying to see the worst in people into an empowering system that builds people up rather than knocks them down.”

Food bank Britain
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A food parcel every 11 seconds: Charity demands urgent action on hunger

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 May, 2025

Over the past five years, the number of families with children relying on food parcels has increased by 46 percent.

Child poverty
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Lord John Bird urges government to step up on poverty to head off Reform threat

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 May, 2025

Bird warns that unless the government acts now, they will not hold back the rise of Reform at the next general election.

Child poverty in the UK
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Ending poverty could save Britain £75bn a year, says charity

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 May, 2025

Trussell is calling for an “essentials guarantee” to be embedded within Universal Credit to ensure recipients can afford basic needs such as food and heating.

Social housing
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Calls to bring universal basic income to Greater Manchester to help reduce poverty and end homelessness

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 February, 2025

‘It’s time to try something new.’

A photo of a placard reading "tax the rich, not our future"
News

#TaxTheSuperRich campaign gains momentum

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 February, 2025

‘None of us can accept this level of inequality.’

housing UK
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Low-income households in UK worse off due to ‘sky-high’ housing costs

Olivia Barber
13 January, 2025

The Resolution Foundation has found that ‘sky-high housing costs’ outweigh the relatively low cost of food

A picture of a man stacking a shelf at a food bank
News

Food banks at Christmas: ‘They’re thinking about having enough food, not celebrating’

Olivia Barber
23 December, 2024

A food bank manager and research and policy director at Trussell speak to Left Foot Forward about food bank use at Christmas.

News

Healthcare crisis for women in the North East raised in parliament

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 November, 2024

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.

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