Since 2009, the UK has seen a rapid and alarming increase in the amount of food banks opening across the country, with the Trussell Trust seeing...
Public health experts have warned that the number of people hospitalised for malnutrition in the UK has risen by 19% because people cannot afford good quality...
The UK must rethink its approach to food and farming to tackle the related challenges of food poverty, obesity and environmental sustainability, according to a new...
More than 20m meals were given to those in desperate need last year in the UK, a report by the Trussell Trust, Church Action on Poverty...
The number of donations made to the UK’s leading food bank provider has surged after an undercover Mail on Sunday journalist lied to obtain food for...
The wealth gap in Britain is continuing to widen and is not only having an impact on people’s quality of life but also the economy, two...
Local authorities across the UK are providing around £3m worth of support to local food banks, a BBC Panorama investigation has found. According to the investigation,...
The government are to unveil plans this week to tackle child poverty levels, after coming under intense criticism by church leaders over welfare reforms and local...
A leading charity has welcomed a government-commissioned report into the UK’s food crisis, saying that politicians “can’t ignore” that families are struggling to cope under falling...
The Church of England has made one of its biggest political interventions in recent decades, openly criticising the prime minister for presiding over cuts to the...
George Osborne said the economic recovery was well underway on Thursday when he delivered his autumn statement in parliament, but food poverty charity the Trussell Trust...
Food poverty charity the Trussell Trust has called on the prime minister to commission an urgent inquiry into the “scandalous” levels of food poverty in the UK, after dramatic...
A new report is expected to suggest that middle-class children will be materially worse off than their parents in later life. The report will be published...
Labour leader Ed Miliband vowed to take action on the “cost of living crisis” on Saturday, ahead of his party’s annual conference which is currently underway...
Retailers can refuse edible products because these don’t satisfy shape or blemish standards criteria, a new report has found. Up to 40% of perfectly eatable food...