👩💻Been zooming APPG poverty & child poverty ... report on how to end need for foodbanks .... yes in UK..!
My point put foward and from Hannah's highlight that the present welfare system is not working together .. something I personally have experienced and I hear our local councillors bemoan ..one department does not talk or connect to another .. there is therefore an Asynchronous failing system that does not provide a firm foundation of support for all that find themselves in a crisis situation. There needs to be a platform of reliable support and not paid in arrears creating systemfailure debts for families. A better platform of support is better housekeeping of central and local government as to provide best practice support prevents more expensive spin off problems to manage!
We also need this better support urgently as we have major global stressors 1. increase cost of living from increase fuel costs 2. Impact of war on resources, 3. Climate change and effect on crops plus impact on health affecting esrning ability..4. The compassionate needs to support refugees from war zones ...5. We in the UK have had shock of ferry company P&O sudden lay off of 800 employees now needing help with their families... so employment laws need review.
Some links
👩💻 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ending-the-need-for-food-banks-report-launch-by-cpag-and-appg-on-poverty-tickets-289564283567?keep_tld=1#
👩💻 https://cpag.org.uk/
👩💻 https://cpag.org.uk/policy-and-campaigns/consultation-response/ending-need-food-banks-consultation-draft-national-plan
👩💻 http://www.appgpoverty.org.uk/
Good to zoom but miss meeting in parliament committee rooms and being able to follow on conversations over coffee in the Jubilee cafe ...
