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The Trussell Trust is calling for change to protect disabled people, who are much more likely to resort to using food banks.

‘The current amount of Universal Credit people are receiving has no bearing on basic human needs.’

It comes as almost three million emergency food parcels were distributed last year by anti-poverty charity, The Trussell Trust

Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams has described new statistics, which show nearly one in two Oldham...

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Paul Kissack, the chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, writes for The Big Issue about how to end poverty in the UK.

Six million of the poorest people in the UK would need to double their income to escape poverty, a major report has warned.

The use of foodbanks has rocketed and more and more families are becoming homeless, statistics suggest, and campaigners have demanded for change to finally happen

New analysis in the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) flagship UK Poverty report quantifies for the first time how many thousands of pounds are needed by families to escape poverty – and how

Experts have warned that the deepening homelessness crisis in Scotland could see the numbers of unhoused people rising by a third in the next two…