🏆Our #Researchoftheweek goes to The Health Foundation for their report ‘Health inequalities in 2040: current and projected patterns of illness by deprivation in England’. (1/4)

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The Prime Minister must know he can’t scare people into good health, but his words this morning will be chilling for low income families up and down the country who rely on our social security system for help.

🗣️ Almost two thirds of people in destitution live with a chronic health condition or disability. Cutting people’s eligibility for benefits won't help.

The PM's speech was an irresponsible war of words on people who already aren’t getting enough support.
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“This is not just about money, it’s about the profound impact on people’s lives.” 💷

New research from Policy in Practice has highlighted that millions of people are missing out on thousands of pounds in unclaimed benefits & support this year. Read more.👇
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Making permanent free school meals for all primary children is a great move
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Setting up ‘baby banks’ however, risks further institutionalising a charitable response to addressing #childpoverty in #London where 4 in 10 children are affected. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Welcome references to #cashfirst actions including working with advice sector in Sadiq Khan actual manifesto - sadiq.london/wp-content/upl… Pilot funding of ‘multi banks’ aka baby or food banks by another name sounds similar to Gordon Brown “transitional arrangement” Vital to remember

Food banks aren't the answer.
Baby banks aren't the answer.
Charity isn't the answer.
We have the tools to end the need for all these sticking plasters. These are not it.
We should expect all our leaders to commit to real solutions, not more piecemeal sticking plasters. ⬇
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Permanent free school meals would be very welcome but setting up/embedding baby banks, like food banks, won’t address the root cause of the poverty faced by parents/carers of young children and would further entrench a charitable response #CashFirst theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Critical research from University of Bristol today on the scale of food bank provision in schools - In England alone - 1 in 5 schools are running food banks

Food bank use remains the tip of the iceberg in terms of wider severe #food insecurity #CashFirst

bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/apri…

The number of older people experiencing hardship has risen by more than a third since before the pandemic - Of 977,386 over-66s who were experiencing deprivation in 2022-23, 100,000 were living in working households. Eleni Courea Richard Partington
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Today's Office for National Statistics (ONS) stats show over 3 million people are prevented from working due to illness or disability - that's double the population of Birmingham unable to work. 1/4

We don't limit NHS care to two children.
We don't limit education to two children.
Why are we condemning children in families with 3+ children to poverty?
If we don't do something poverty for families w/ 3+ children will rise to 51% in the UK according to Resolution Foundation

Read our latest blog on food insecurity and poverty written by Sabine Goodwin , director of IFAN . Sabine, thank you for sharing such an important, informative and insightful piece! pran.org.uk/blog/latest-dw…

Our most recent Food and Your 2 survey reveals an increase in concerns about the affordability of food.

55% of respondents in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland 'highly concerned'—the highest level recorded since the survey's inception. food.gov.uk/news-alerts/ne…

📈 Government stats show disabled people were THREE TIMES more likely to have turned to a food bank last year, compared to non-disabled people.

Our social security system should be there to support disabled people to afford the essentials. 💚

But right now, it’s falling short.

Thank you to our friends Greater Manchester Poverty Action for letting us share some of the findings and recommendations from our recent blueprint for tackling child poverty in the North East, in the latest edition of their newsletter

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Según IFAN en 2010 había en🇬🇧 66 bancos de alimentos. Esa cifra supera ahora los 2500.
'En Reino Unido hay más bancos de alimentos que McDonald's. Ante la ausencia de servicios públicos, las ONG están condenadas a recoger los pedazos del Estado de bienestar'.
Ana Carbajosa