
Sabine Goodwin
@sabineegoodwin
@IFAN_UK Director, Advocating for a #cashfirst approach to food insecurity, Find me on Bluesky
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http://www.foodaidnetwork.org.uk 21-11-2016 15:55:10
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Today we’re in Parliament with Rosie Duffield MP, @TrussellTrust, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, IFAN, and food poverty campaigner Dominic @SingleDadSW Watters to demand action. 9.3 million people face hunger. It’s time to Guarantee Our Essentials. 🟢 Food 🟢 Heating 🟢 Hygiene 🟢 Dignity #EssentialsGuarantee













“What’s going on in the benefits system is symptomatic of an ill society where there is poor health, poor public services & a lot of poverty” I argued to Chris Smyth for this piece that tackling underlying causes is the only path to sustainable savings thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

As Sara Ogilvie says, the govt has said it's its moral mission to eradicate child poverty. The only way it can start to do that is by scrapping the two-child limit. It pulls 109 kids into poverty every day. If it doesn't, child poverty will be higher at the end of this parliament





Carers are protesting in a unique way at Westminster this morning over the lack of paid respite. Actor Greg Wise is a Carers Trust ambassador and was a live-in carer for his sister for the last three months of her life.