Do you still feel worse off in spite of energy bills falling? It's no surprise. 📉

The additional spend by households on energy over the last three years totals more than £72bn, according to the End Fuel Poverty Coalition Coalition.

Isabella McRae reports. 👇
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Progress on a national school food policy is a positive step towards improving student nutrition, academic success & more, but it shouldn't be expected to address food insecurity.

What would? Changing the CCB to better address income inadequacy. More at: policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-…

📷 Online Rally 📷 Thursday 30th May 7-8pm
Poverty has to be on the agenda at the General Election on 4 July. Join the #LetsEndPoverty online rally to find out how to challenge all parties to make tackling poverty their priority before election day! letsendpoverty.co.uk/latest/events/…

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Some of us have never known life without austerity & grew up with the normalisation & existence of Food banks. They shouldn't ever have to exist in such a wealthy nation like ours.

Excellent piece by Dan Crossley Food Ethics Council for The Grocer Food banks are now normalised. This is a failure of state - 'Imagine for a moment we received a decree that all food banks in the UK must close overnight.' #CashFirst
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Now is the time to prioritise actions to obliterate the poverty driving severe #foodinsecurity and food bank use. Latest Department for Work and Pensions data tells us why -
pran.org.uk/blog/latest-dw… #CashFirst IFAN

As many will know PXI is a member of IFAN here is there statement following tonight announcement of a #GeneralElection on #4thJuly2024

“My top priority will be to eradicate child poverty, not tackle, not reduce but eradicate.” John Swinney

Our Delivering for Families report Joseph Rowntree Foundation includes recommendations to ensure action doesn't fall short of ambition.

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⛔️Record food bank use, slashing public services to the bone, failing to ban exploitative zero hours contracts...

We really need to be able to hold our politicians to account more easily on human rights.

Join our discussion on 4 June👇
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New Big Issue coverage of our Stop the Squeeze coalition polling data, which shows that nearly 90% of British people say cost of living crisis is far from over.

Read more: bigissue.com/news/politics/…

'86% of the British public say the cost of living crisis is still with them.'

NEF's Chief Executive Danny Sriskandarajah on BBC Newsnight, last night, discussing the recent findings released by NEF and our Stop the Squeeze coalition partners.

Today’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show that the rate of inflation is coming down- But the damage of the last few years remains an open wound that continues to go mostly untreated.

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📢 Join us for a 30-minute snap analysis of the latest UK benefits levels report by Work & Pensions Committee

Thursday's event features The Labour Party MP Sir Stephen Timms and our Executive Director Anna Taylor.

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In our report for The Trussell Trust, we find that the impact of the Scottish Child Payment has reduced food bank usage for some households.

Preliminary evidence shows that the effect was larger after the payment amount increased. Read more below: fraserofallander.org/impact-of-the-…

Is the Scottish Child Payment reducing the need for food banks in Scotland?

Read Fraser of Allander Institute’s blog ⤵️
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Nearly 90% think the cost of living crisis is ongoing.

The economy isn't 'turning a corner', it's spiralling out of control.

It’s time for a real cost of living plan for Britain.

Stop the Squeeze

We support the call from the parents and carers of @Changing_r for a compassionate and just social security system, a system that recognises increasing costs and works for all families who need it. #HopeStartsHere changingrealities.org/hope