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Hancock agrees to open healthy food scheme to children from migrant families
The Healthy Start scheme is worth £4.25 per week per child for families who qualify for state support.
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Hancock agrees to open healthy food scheme to children from migrant families

Black lives matter: ‘You can’t separate poverty from race’
A Black Lives Matter demonstration in London, July 2020.
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Black lives matter: ‘You can’t separate poverty from race’

'Clear majority' of British public backs universal credit increase
A majority of the public also wants reforms to stop working parents being priced out of childcare. universal credit
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'Clear majority' of British public backs universal credit increase

Low-paid work and 'stagnating' incomes pushing children into poverty
Adult holding a child's hand in front of a pond. child poverty
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Low-paid work and 'stagnating' incomes pushing children into poverty

200,000 people denied universal credit because of their partner’s income
Around 50,000 people were ineligible for universal credit because of their migration status
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200,000 people denied universal credit because of their partner’s income

Fight poverty to support people in Covid hotspots, say experts
Deane in Bolton, where Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people are more than double the national average. poverty
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Fight poverty to support people in Covid hotspots, say experts

Majority of food bank users are disabled in 'abject failure' of state support
An aerial view of a woman packing food parcels at a food bank. Nearly half of people using food banks last year were in debt to the government
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Majority of food bank users are disabled in 'abject failure' of state support

'The time I met Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers'
Voice of the people. Hampton and Dr Benjamin Spock attend a rally against the trial of eight people accused of plotting a riot in Chicago in October 1969. Hampton was assassinated less than two months later Image credit: Esk/AP/Shutterstock
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'The time I met Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers'

These period poverty campaigners want to make you angry
The period poverty film is based on neurological evidence of anger as a driver for change.
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These period poverty campaigners want to make you angry

‘I feel like a failure’: Universal credit parents face mental health nosedive
The rise in need for universal credit rose more sharply in already deprived areas during the pandemic than in better-off areas, researchers said.
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‘I feel like a failure’: Universal credit parents face mental health nosedive

Put right to food in law to save people and planet, say researchers
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Put right to food in law to save people and planet, say researchers

HMS Prince Philip costs could cover free school meals for nearly three months
HMS Prince Philip would be successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia, decommissioned in 1997 to cut costs.
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HMS Prince Philip costs could cover free school meals for nearly three months

People on legacy benefits take discrimination case to High Court
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People on legacy benefits take discrimination case to High Court

Fewer kids on free school meals were in classrooms on school return
The Government said attendance for children on free school meals is
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Fewer kids on free school meals were in classrooms on school return

Cutting universal credit is a 'mistake', Tory MPs tell PM
Rishi Sunak announced in the spring Budget that the universal credit increase would be extended until September
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Cutting universal credit is a 'mistake', Tory MPs tell PM

Emergency food parcels given to two children in UK every minute
A child eating biscuits. The food banks charity does not expect demand to decrease any time soon, with universal credit set to be cut by £20 per week in September.
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Emergency food parcels given to two children in UK every minute

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UK hit harder by pandemic poverty than in France and Germany
A man looking at a laptop, worried, with his hands on his head. Brits in poverty had incomes 20 per cent lower than the poorest households in France before the pandemic.
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UK hit harder by pandemic poverty than in France and Germany

'A giant step forward’: What next as George Floyd’s killer is found guilty
Black Lives Matter Austria, close-up picture of Convict Killer Cops sign. Image credit: Ivan Radic / Wikimedia Commons
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'A giant step forward’: What next as George Floyd’s killer is found guilty

School uniform costs are pushing struggling families deeper into poverty
A patchy grant scheme means families in poverty get little support to afford school uniforms.
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School uniform costs are pushing struggling families deeper into poverty

More than 300,000 children register for free school meals in Covid chaos
Brown paper bags lined up. The Government has refused to extend free school meals into half term
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More than 300,000 children register for free school meals in Covid chaos