Lisa Holcroft says football clubs should be utilised and players could help out, Sally Young is angered that food poverty has become normalised, while Frank Field MP addresses ‘holiday hunger’I am so depressed to hear that children are going hungry during the summer holidays due to […]

In England’s poorest areas, summer holiday hunger schemes are being starved of cash, leaving many children short of foodThirteen children gather eagerly around a pile of brown paper bags crammed with sandwiches, yoghurts and fruit in a youth centre on the deprived north-west fringes of […]

One woman’s shocking story sums up the inhumanity of the modern benefits regimeLast week, a woman’s sanction letter from the Department for Work and Pensions went viral on Twitter. Danielle John, from Cardiff, simply wrote: “Was told to put this up on Twitter… this was […]

More families turn to food parcels to make up for loss of free school meals, extra childcare costs and benefit payment delaysChurch and community food banks are preparing for their busiest summer yet, providing meals for children during the school holidays as an increasing number of families […]

Heidi Allen and Frank Field say families haunted by ‘constant spectre of destitution’The failure of the welfare state over the past decade has left families in Britain’s poorest neighbourhoods “blighted by the constant spectre of destitution” and reliant on charity […]

Britain’s elite will always be immune from the economic misery they cause, argues Alan Braddock, while Tom McIver applauds Oxbridge’s moves to combat elitism. Plus a letter from Adrian Childs-ClarkeGary Younge’s article (A self-serving clique runs Britain. That’s why […]

Parents tell MPs they are struggling to cope with higher childcare and food costsFamilies on universal credit are being plunged into debt because of increased childcare and food costs during school holidays, parents have told a committee of MPs as they appealed for help to manage the extra costs. […]

Maintenance staff walk out for five days after employer Interserve moved paydayA food bank collection has been set up outside the Foreign Office in London for cleaners, porters and maintenance staff who have begun a five-day strike in protest over low wages, union recognition and being left without […]

The writer has raised over £30,000 to give out copies of her latest book, whose recipes use only store-cupboard ingredientsFood banks up and down the UK can expect a different kind of delivery, after the writer and campaigner Jack Monroe raised money to give out more than 7,000 copies of her […]

The UK is a rich country, but food poverty is now a daily reality for many families. This is not inevitable• Shaista Aziz is a Labour councillor in OxfordThat the UN’s rapporteur on extreme poverty, along with researchers from a global human rights organisation, had to come to my home […]

Schools confirm Human Rights Watch findings government is failing children in povertyHeadteachers have spoken out about the hardship their students are facing in the wake of a Human Rights Watch report that highlighted the growing number of children in the UK going hungry. Related: UK's 'cruel and […]

Damning Human Rights Watch report accuses the government of breaching its dutyHuman Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the UK government of breaching its international duty to keep people from hunger by pursuing “cruel and harmful polices” with no regard for the impact on children living in […]

In a visit to a jobcentre, staff told me all was fine. Off the record, others talk of brutal cuts causing starvation and despairCome with me on an eerie visit, where we step through the looking glass into an alternative universe where everything is as good as can be. You will like it here. Everyone […]

Although austerity is to blame for the alarming rise in child poverty, the Conservatives have mastered the art of spinning itChild poverty is the “new normal” in parts of Britain. That’s according to findings released today by the End Child Poverty coalition, a group of more than […]

In our research we have spoken to doctors, nurses, teachers, accountants and social workers who have been waiting for years while their skills and qualifications become redundant, says Helen O’NionsI have been engaged in research examining the experiences of people with insecure immigration […]

Universal credit’s effect on food bank use may be greater than statistics suggest, says Jane Middleton, while an anonymous reader eligible for £1.26 a month of the benefit wonders how many others are in her situationThe Trussell Trust is absolutely right to make clear that it is not, […]

While he earns thousands blathering to bankers, his party’s policies leave people starving. The disconnect is astoundingWhat does a person say in two speeches that is worth £160,000? Do they vomit gold? This is the amount that Boris Johnson made last month. He made a speech for the […]

There is no starker example than universal credit of the way cuts punish this country’s most vulnerable citizensIt is 2019, and the UK is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. But today’s figures released by the Trussell Trust show that more than 1.6 million emergency food […]

Trussell Trust tells state not to rely on them and demands changes to UK benefit system‘I’m at rock bottom’: food banks stretched as hardship bitesA record 1.6m emergency food parcels were given out by the Trussell Trust food bank network last year – more than 500,000 of […]

Hammersmith and Fulham food bank helps scores of local people facing pressures of austerity and povertyFood bank network hands out record 1.6m parcels in a yearThe food bank in St Simon’s church hall, in a quiet residential street off Shepherd’s Bush Green in west London is buzzing with […]