It's Right to Food Week. We should all be able to access healthy, affordable food - but our current food system is leaving people hungry, damaging our health, exploiting workers, and driving climate breakdown. Time for a #GreenNewDeal #RightToFood

This is what an anti-#hunger policy looks like! 🥣Cash transfers 🍏Healthy school food from smallholder farmers 👨‍🌾Agroecological transition payments 🧺Support for Black and rural women 🌳Amazon protection 💬Including marginalised people in decision-making aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/…

💥Please join us for the Public panel of the CSIPM Forum today! From 4-6 PM Rome time. With members of the CSIPM Coordination Committee, Ambassador Gabriel Ferrero y de Loma Osorio, Chair of the CFS, and Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the #RighttoFood. CSIPM

#BarnetUNISON strikers picket line day 7 #EnoughIsEnough #CostOfLivingCrisis ✊ UNISON - UK's largest union

Record number of food parcels handed out in Barnet this summer Figures from the Trussell Trust show 14,522 emergency food parcels were handed out between April and September across three food banks in Barnet - a rise from 9,026 barnetpost.co.uk/2023/11/09/rec…

#BarnetUNISON Mental Health social workers on their picket line #CostOfLivingCrisis #EnoughIsEnough

"A food parcel cannot stop hunger from happening in the first place. While food banks have scrambled to help as many people as possible, destitution figures have more than doubled in five years." Sabine Goodwin Maria Marshall Guardian letters #CashFirst theguardian.com/society/2023/n…

This is GREAT news. 👏

⚠️ It was disappointing to hear so little mention of the impact of the #CostOfLivingCrisis in today's #AutumnStatement Rates of #foodinsecurity in households with children have doubled and in the last 18 months alone food prices have increased by 25%. Read more:

Nearly eight-in-ten food banks saw demand for their services increase comparing August to October 2023 with the same period last year – yet 73% saw donations drop. #cashfirst bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

Devastating UNICEF league table on changes in child poverty over 7+ years up to 2021: UK in the bottom spot Report: unicef.org/globalinsight/…

UK ranks worst among world’s richest countries in child poverty levels, says Unicef independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

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"We need to be collectively shouting from the rooftops that baby banks, like warm banks, fuel banks and food banks, shouldn’t be needed." Sabine Goodwin Graham Whitham @GMPovertyAction Ames Taylor #CashFirst Sally Weale ifanuk.org/47KBh9D

And most households reportimg severe food insecurity in Department for Work and Pensions #FamilyResoursesSurvey (running out of money to buy food/skipping meals) do not use a food bank Trades Union Congress #CashFirst

7 things you can do to support Barnet Mental Health social worker strikers barnetunison.me.uk/wp/2024/01/02/… LeedsUniUnison UNISON @ City St George's University SOAS UNISON UNISON Manchester Met Jo Galloway UNISON Greater London UNISON South West UNISON North West UNISON Scotland #CostOfLivingCrisis #EnoughIsEnough

This is great news. A positive step towards universal free school meals for ALL ages as standard!

Only during the cold weather? Summer rough sleeping is fine?