@TrussellTrust Cllr Nicola Taylor Cllr Sue Gower MBE Cllr Wendy Perfect Cllr James Hunt London Borough of Bexley Bexley Labour Feed Bexley Kids @MumsnetBexley Erith & Thamesmead Labour🌹 Greater Erith Erith Town FC Plz RT we are seriously low on donations & rising energy bills are going to affect those most in need..thank you 👍🏻💚🥫

Please help #Erith Foodbank. 41% of those helped by foodbanks in Bexley are children. They need our support.

Something is so broken when two people like Marcus Rashford and Jack Monroe have done more to help feed schoolchildren and families than anyone voted into power. Both of whom struggled themselves.

I've been interviewing people using #FoodBanks about the circumstances that have led them there & the impact on their #MentalHealth In a new IFAN & Joseph Rowntree Foundation report, out today & covered by Big Issue, I describe what I heard - here are the headlines 🧵 bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

[1/5] 4.3 million UK children are growing up in poverty. Their families' budgets were already at breaking point before rising bills and prices. Parents and carers have told us about the impact on their families: “I couldn’t cut [shopping] back any more as I do cheap as I can.”

1/3 Yesterday's Spring Statement from Rishi Sunak was really worrying. There was no mention of an increase in benefit payments in line with the cost of living. Families will face a real 'can't pay the bills' crisis. This will be the choice between heating or eating for many.

Proud to sign Ian Byrne's letter to the Chancellor calling for the Right to Food to be enshrined in UK law. 41% of those helped by Bexley Food banks are children. No one should go hungry ! #hungerisapoliticalchoice #RightToFood #Erith

Single mother of three Zara, who works full time, in tears on phone to LBC James O'Brien saying she has to keep her kids warm with hot water bottles and jumpers and can only afford one meal a day. She eats their leftovers. “The system isn’t working for people like me”

This summer is going to be tough for a lot of families, please #RT it may help someone

This dinner lady says she cries going into work - because she has to deny children school lunch.

Please share: If a customer calls any Tesco customer services (banking, insurance or stores) and informs them they are vulnerable and struggling financially—with children—they will receive a free shop to be delivered based on their needs.

‘A child was “pretending to eat out of an empty lunchbox” because they did not qualify for free school meals and did not want their friends to know there was no food at home.’ theguardian.com/business/2022/…

Yesterday, one of our students nearly fainted at school because she hadn’t eaten. We gave her two apples. She ate one, and put one in her bag for her younger sibling. Talking about cost of living isn’t enough. Our children are starving.

We shouldn’t let this be buried by other news today. Foodbank charity Trussell Trust says that the need for foodbanks has outstripped donations for the first time. It has distributed 46% more emergency food parcels in August and September than at the same time in 2021.

Britain’s poor face the worst winter in living memory. A year ago we talked about people having to choose between heating and eating, now many can’t afford either. Basics like soap, toothpaste etc are becoming unaffordable luxuries. And it’s only going to get worse. [THREAD}

"7-year-olds forced to steal to eat." Today I introduced my Free School Meals for All Bill in Parliament, where I described how it would tackle the heartbreaking injustice of child food poverty in Tory Britain.

No child should ever have to go to school hungry.

Honoured health expert says UK failing to meet basic needs of food and shelter | The Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/new-ye…

🏫 FREE SCHOOL MEALS The #costoflivingcrisis means that far too many children go to school hungry. That’s why the Mayor Of London is providing emergency funding for a year for free school meals for primary school children in London. #FreeSchoolMeals #nochildgoeshungry