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The 100-page report, “‘I Felt So Stuck’: Inadequate Housing and Social Support for Families Seeking Asylum in the United Kingdom,” found that families seeking asylum face inhumane conditions in temporary housing, including rat infestation and mould. The families experience daily struggles to get food their children will eat, as well as mental and physical health problems and serious disruptions to their children’s education.

Ringwood Foodbank supported the Trussell Trust’s campaign to ‘Guarantee Our Essentials,’ which calls on the UK government to reform Universal…

As kids go back to school this week, Blackburn Foodbank has joined a campaign to ensure everyone can afford the essentials.

The latest survey from the Independent Food Aid Network finds food bank managers deeply concerned about the growing number of people with nowhere else to turn, and fearing a calamitous winter to come.

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The chief executive of Gatehouse food bank in Bury St Edmunds has voiced concern for winter following a challenging and demanding summer.

Organisations representing hundreds of thousands of health and care professionals, and the millions who use their services, warn that so many people are routinely going without the essentials it poses a serious risk to the UK’s health.

Campaigners say the standard Universal Credit payment is £35 less than the cost of essentials - leading Brits struggling to afford vital medicines or bus fares to hospital appointments

The government is being urged to act immediately to support struggling families by lifting the two-child Universal Credit limit and introducing an Essentials Guarantee.