Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know there is a housing crisis – and even if you have been, your rent has probably gone up. Despite house prices having fallen slightly, housing continues to devour outrageous amounts of income.
In 2018-2019, the Trussell Trust’s food bank network distributed 1.6 million three-day emergency food supplies to people in crisis, a 19% increase on the previous year. More than half a million of these went to children.
Christian charity Church Action on Poverty has encouraged local communities and churches to start food pantries as a long-term solution to tackling food poverty in their area.
End Child Poverty has published new figures (January 2018) on the level of child poverty in each constituency, local authority and ward in the United Kingdom. The figures reveal the wide disparity in poverty rates across the UK.
Refugees are ending up homeless within days of being granted asylum, claims a new report. Research by No Accommodation Network (NACCOM) suggests that more than one in four homeless people are refugees.
Witnessing children in the UK visiting a food bank is truly shocking, but research tells us it is not uncommon. In the last six months (2017) The Trussell Trust gave out over half a million food parcels, more than 200,000 were given to children.
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