
Scotland has had lower poverty rates than UK for two decades, analysis shows
“The biggest single factor is the level of social security available for families.”
“The biggest single factor is the level of social security available for families.”
“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.”
Over the past five years, the number of families with children relying on food parcels has increased by 46 percent.
Bird warns that unless the government acts now, they will not hold back the rise of Reform at the next general election.
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.
‘It’s time to try something new.’
‘None of us can accept this level of inequality.’
The Resolution Foundation has found that ‘sky-high housing costs’ outweigh the relatively low cost of food
A food bank manager and research and policy director at Trussell speak to Left Foot Forward about food bank use at Christmas.
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.