🚨ONLINE EVENT🚨 The Poverty Alliance and STUC are looking at how the wages of Scottish workers have been falling and consider how lack of employment income contributes to the injustice of poverty. #ChallengePoverty Register here: buff.ly/3LHBK3m

.Changing Realities in the The Guardian on all that was wrong with Hunt's speech "The solution isn’t squeezing people more, it’s fixing our public services, improving our social security system, making sure people can afford the essentials and giving people hope' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"an Essentials Guarantee would be a significant step on the road to closing the doors of food banks, for good. It would be an investment in dignity, security & aspiration" Excellent & vital piece from Joseph Rowntree Foundation's @PaulKissack & @TrussellTrust's Emma Revie newstatesman.com/spotlight/econ…

To hear Anas Sarwar pretending you can reduce child poverty without abolishing the two-child limit is deeply depressing. Ditching it would immediately lift 250,000 children out of poverty and reduce it for 800,000 more. It’s a no-brainer. #r4today

Food banks do not provide solutions to hunger or poverty. Like other charitable food aid providers they can do no more than alleviate these deep-rooted problems. Systemic change will provide the solution IFAN #CashFirst

Looking forward to co-hosting this event in Liverpool at #labconf23 on Sunday afternoon alongside Graham Whitham Laura Burgess Maria Marshall Abby #CashFirst

If you’re a delegate heading for #LabConf23, don’t forget to support our motion on the two-child benefits limit in the priorities ballot tomorrow! Vote for Reform of Universal Credit if you want to #scrapthecap

Fellow delegates, please remember to vote for Reform of Universal Credit in priorities ballot tomorrow 🙏 The two-child cap is immoral and wrong - #scrapthecap

Vital chance to get a focus on abolition of the two-child limit at #LabourConference23. Delegates, please vote to #ScraptheCap!

At #LabourConference23 you can make your vote count for children. Reform of UC as a priority will help end the 2 child limit. Labour has a proud history of backing children and families. That last Labour government made a huge impact on child poverty. We can and must do it again.

Thanks to everyone who supported our joint event at #Lab23 with IFAN on #cashfirst & ending the need for charitable food aid. It was a great event with a fantastic panel & very engaged audience asking excellent questions. Now for another day of conference! @GMPovertyAction

We were delighted to get the #CashFirst message across to delegates at our @GMPovertyAction IFAN #LabConf23 fringe event last night. Now heading down to the docks for a day of fringe meetings. Hoping to hear more about how we can drive down poverty & boost living standards.

A Portuguese lesson on free school meals. Our Guardian letter on the urgent need for universal free school meals in the UK, based on our European research with children & families. theguardian.com/education/2023… School Food Matters Myles Bremner lan Byrne MP CRIPACC UH julia brannen #feedthefuture

It was a privilege to be invited to speak to UsdawLearn reps this morning about the campaigns I am leading on in Parliament and why #RightToFood #HillsboroughLawNow & #RealTruthLegacyProject matter to all trade unionists. Thanks to Terry Adair & katie hunt for your superb support.

"However well-intentioned, the conflation of the food poverty and food waste problems further entrenches a two-tier food system in the UK meaning people impoverished by a broken system are having to make do with what’s leftover." Sabine Goodwin Big Issue bigissue.com/opinion/food-b…

“Turning the tide on destitution is an urgent moral mission, which speaks to our basic humanity as a country, and we need political leadership for that mission.” ⁦@PaulKissack⁩ ⁦Joseph Rowntree Foundation⁩ ⁦Patrick Butler⁩ #CashFirst #EssentialsGuarantee theguardian.com/society/2023/o…

I always wanted to write a book and here it is!!! Women and Welfare Conditionality shows how women's lives are shaped by work and welfare laws past and present. Benefit sanctions don't work but do huge harm to women and children. Policy Press Urban Studies & Social Policy University of Glasgow

Vital that the food waste and food poverty problems aren’t conflated. The Government’s first priority must be to ensure adequate incomes for people through social security payments or wages. Entrenching a charitable food aid response is ineffective and unsustainable #CashFirst

This is a must-listen interview with Sabine Goodwin of IFAN. Someone needs to tell our misguided monarch that embedding charitable food aid will perpetuate both food poverty and food waste. Let’s tackle the root causes of each separately. #CashFirst

Imagine financial donations being used by food banks to distribute gift cards or cash payments. People can make their own choices as a result. Food banks are needed in the here and now but they’re not obliged to purchase food or distribute food parcels #CashFirst IFAN