COVID-19 Impact: 50 per cent of UK households believe they will struggle to meet their financial...
Food poverty
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05/05/2020
Millions of malnourished children overlooked
The numbers currently used by the UN to estimate malnutrition underplay the true extent of the problem. New analysis of data from 18 countries in the West and Central Africa shows that conventional estimates of malnutrition for the region effectively overlooked millions of malnourished children.
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29/04/2020
Global/regional projections on the impact of COVID-19 on poverty
An overview of the various global and regional analysis on the impact of COVID-19 on poverty from the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty finds that millions more will be pushed into extreme poverty worldwide.
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08/04/2020
UN Warns Mass Hunger Facing West Africa Will Worsen as Coronavirus Takes Hold
A new United Nations food assessment of 17 West African countries - made before the potential impact of Covid-19 - finds more than 19 million people in the region will go hungry during the upcoming lean season.
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29/03/2020
Impact of Covid-19 on food access
The Food Foundation has just released the results of a YouGov survey on the impact of Covid-19 on food access. (See here ) They found that;
“More than 1.5 million adults in Britain say they cannot obtain enough food, 53% of NHS workers are worried about getting food, and half of parents with children eligible for Free School Meals have not received any substitute meals to keep their children fed, despite government assurances that they would provide food vouchers or parcels. This means that 830,000 children could be going without daily sustenance on which they usually rely.”
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28/10/2019
UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
This year’s theme for the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty focussed on child and family poverty. A key theme was prioritising access to quality social services.
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08/05/2019
UK Food Security
The UK Government recently agreed to measure food insecurity in the annual Family Resources Survey (FRS) – which is used to produce UK poverty statistics. Read more...
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25/05/2014
Hard times: 2014
The Hard Times reports provide evidence gathered by communities themselves on the impact of austerity and cuts on families and young people across Northern Ireland. Watch the accompanying films on home repossession, struggles with debt and youth hopes and dreams on the community webpages.
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13/05/2014
Findings
CiA Feeling the strain_1
I feel like I am walking on the edge of a cliff and at any moment I might fall off.
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04/03/2014
‘Hard to know’ why people use foodbanks – minister
A coalition government minister has claimed it is ‘very hard to know' why people go to foodbanks.
The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Lord Freud, said in the House of Lords: 'On the issue of food banks... which we have discussed several times in this House, clearly nobody goes to a food bank willingly. However, it is very hard to know why people go to them'.
He added that a recent review commissioned by the coalition government had shown a 'lack of systematic peer-reviewed research' from the UK on the reasons or immediate circumstances that lead people to turn to food aid.
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03/03/2014
1 in 3 councils supporting foodbanks
Local councils in England and Wales have spent nearly £3 million over the last two years on tackling food poverty, an investigation has revealed. Well over a third of all councils – 140 out of 323 responding – told a survey for the BBC's Panorama programme that they have subsidised foodbanks.
Both the Trussell Trust (the largest network of food banks) and Citizens Advice told the BBC the main causes of the rise in demand are problems with benefits, low income and debt.
Source: Hungry Britain?, Panorama, BBC One, 3 March 2014Category: News stories
