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 […]

As we wait for the EU to decide on a Brexit delay, the national mood has turned poisonousThe mood has turned nastier since I first visited the Big Help Project food bank in Knowsley, Merseyside, two years ago. Back then, the Brexit poison hadn’t seeped so deep. But now, when the call goes out […]

Joint DWP and HMRC report was released on Thursday but dated November 2017Ministers sat for nearly a year and a half on research that revealed that tax credit claimants experienced “real financial problems” after they signed on to universal credit, it has emerged.The joint Department […]

Readers Rob Davies, Jeff Skinner and Dave Newsome take issue with a previous letter on the institutionalisation of charitable food banksThe professors writing about the institutionalisation of food banks (Letters, 25 March) illuminate a familiar dilemma in all charitable activity: is it just a […]

Call to deal with root causes of food poverty as 480,000 parcels delivered in 18 monthsThe number of crisis food parcels being distributed in Scotland is almost double previous estimates, with campaigners predicting a similar increase across the rest of the UK as further data is gathered.The new […]

The government is essentially subsidising firms to waste food, then redistribute it to boost their reputations. It’s grotesqueWho benefits from food banks? The donors? The volunteers? The recipients? You might be surprised – and dismayed – to learn that big food corporations from […]

Letter by 58 campaigners and academics says corporate approach is a ‘sticking plaster’The UK food bank movement has been warned it is in danger of being “captured” by big corporations and supermarket chains that promote high-profile partnerships with charities as effective […]

Charitable food aid is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound of systemic inequality in the UK and US, say signatories including Prof Olivier de Schutter, a former UN special rapporteur on the right to foodAt a time when the UK’s likely break with Europe is widely expected to increase poverty […]