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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 did we actually do? Our Cash First trial ran for 4 weeks. 30 people received direct cash support — shaped by community voices, not top-down decisions. 1/3 Sabine Goodwin IFAN

The new Crisis and Resilience Fund has the potential to support the Government's ambition to end mass dependence on emergency food parcels but we need to reframe the concept of crisis... Sabine Goodwin for Big Issue #CashFirst bigissue.com/opinion/labour…

‼️ Please ask your MP to back this reasoned amendment 👇

We’re so grateful to all the MPs bravely taking a stand. Disabled people, carers & food banks are terrified about the potentially devastating consequences if these massive cuts to disability support go ahead. They need as many MPs as possible to stand with them on this.

Ahead of a crucial vote on cuts to disability benefits, our new evidence casts doubt on whether jobs are even available for disabled people facing cuts 📢 The analysis found that the parts of the country among the hardest hit by the cuts have fewer job opportunities 1/3

"These facts underline that these cuts are not an economic necessity." It's rare to see such consensus about the dangers of the disability benefit cuts from so many organisations & charities. Read & share the briefing: ucpipbill.co.uk #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePIP

Despite Liz Kendall and other cabinet ministers being locked in talks trying to convince welfare rebels not to vote down the bill, I'm told the number of Labour MPs planning to do so has actually gone up - from 108 to 127.

What happened to the 18-21 year olds won’t get UC health element? Do the concessions to the Welfare reform Bill abolish that or are MPs still happy to vote for young disabled people to have no money to live on?

Which means this massive change to PIP eligibility kicks in just as the PIP review reports. Before any hope of impact from it. So how is the PIP review going to be 'co-produced' if the outcome is predetermined?

What's playing out in the Commons is utter madness. We don't even know what the new scoring criteria will be when the new scoring system comes in. There's not a single MP, including the secretary of state, including the prime minister, who knows what they're actually voting on

"It's not just PIP" I've written an overview of the government's disability benefit plans - covering not just PIP and the Timms review, but also Universal Credit, contributory ESA and statistics around PIP reviews - and what's being voted on when bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

“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

Disabled people are already THREE times more likely to need to use food banks. MPs must vote NO to cuts to disabled people’s social security today.

Universal Credit and (no longer!) PIP Bill goes to a final vote today. Here's our joint briefing with 20 other organisations setting out final analysis of the Bill & priorities for further amendments: ucpipbill.co.uk

“Teenagers being shot by Israeli soldiers.” Nick Maynard is a British gastrointestinal surgeon, who is currently in Gaza, working at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.  We began by asking him what he can tell us about the shootings near the aid distribution sites this morning.

Vital research by Dr Carl Walker on ‘hunger trauma’ as referenced in Sabine Goodwin piece for Big Issue on food bank volunteerism bigissue.com/opinion/keir-s… The real solution is to stop hunger from happening in the first place #CashFirst

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.