Coronavirus : Self-isolation support
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Latest entries on FindFoodBanksBrum : Issue 7
This is our periodic update on latest listings added to the Find Food Banks Brum website. Our listings of food banks, charity shops, eating places, support services and more continues to grow.
The DWP has ‘buried’ its secret report into foodbanks
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is sitting on its own ‘secret‘ investigation into foodbank use. It should have released it in October 2019. Now, an SNP MP has put the issue back on parliament’s agenda.
The opt-out organ donation system : know your rights
The British Liver Trust welcomes plans for a new opt-out system for organ donation in England. The plans, expected to come into effect in spring 2020, will mean consent for organ donation is presumed unless a person has opted-out.
Number of homeless children hits 13-year high in ‘national shame’
The number of homeless children has hit a 13-year high in what Labour brand the “national shame” of a decade of Tory rule. Some 127,370 children were stuck in temporary accommodation between April and June – the most since spring 2006.
Christian charity says churches are filling hunger gap government should be preventing
Human Rights Watch have released a new investigative report which says that tens of thousands of families in England have been left without enough food to eat, apparently because of Government welfare cuts.
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Guardian : Communities
- Eric Jay obituary
- The horror films got it wrong. This virus has turned us into caring neighbours | George Monbiot
- Coronavirus has tainted city life. Now I long for nature and community | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
- Being a coronavirus volunteer shows how our lives are stitched together | Clare Allan
- Thousands of rough sleepers still unhoused in England, say charities
- Here's my mum with the news! Radio DJs on the switch to home-broadcasting
- Coronavirus has exposed the reality of a world without work | Josh Cohen
- Home Office to hold on evicting asylum seekers during lockdown