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Independent Food Aid Network @ifanuk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Find out about our 'Worrying About Money?' resources project in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland and the work we undertook in 2024... bit.ly/wam-england-... @abbypreston01.bsky.social @emmaosterberg.bsky.social #CashFirst

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Independent Food Aid Network @ifanuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Read our @abbypreston01.bsky.social's blog on Paving the way for permanent crisis support in England and find out more in our joint report Shaping the Future of Local Welfare and Crisis Support in England - childrenssociety.org.uk/what-we-do/o... #CashFirst www.foodaidnetwork.org.uk/post/paving-...

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Paving the way for permanent crisis support in England

IntroductionIn the Autumn of 2024, the Chancellor announced a year-long extension to the semi-permanent Household Support Fund (HSF) in England from March 2025. For years, local authorities have endur...

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The key risks from these reforms: 🟢 many of those affected will be very unresponsive to financial incentives and assistance 🟢 changes in behaviour might mean that the hoped-for savings do not materialise, making the fiscal situation trickier still

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Abby Preston @abbypreston01.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Rachel Reeves said she’d never do anything to endanger household finances, but the millions of people who now miss out on vital social security support apparently don’t count…

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Abby Jitendra @abbyabhaya.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Here @ Pat McFadden’s speech where Universal Credit rollout is being used as a blueprint for future reform incl of disability benefits Test & learn is good but important to remember that on the ground rollout caused big upheaval & DWP was slow to act on concerns about waiting times & destitution.

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Joe Hanley @joehanley.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

"81% of social workers working with children, young people and families have seen the number of cases referred to them due to poverty increase in the last three years" Important findings from @swu-uk.bsky.social and @itvnews.bsky.social: swu-union.org.uk/2024/12/soci...

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Social workers report poverty crisis for children - SWU Social Workers Union

The cost-of-living crisis has led to a third of UK social workers witnessing child removals in the past three years where poverty or financial poverty has been a key factor.

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Z2K (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust) @z2ktrust.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It's good to see @allymcgovern.bsky.social acknowledge that past 'crackdowns' on social security have made it harder for disabled people to enter work. Yet the government has still not set a date for its promised review of universal credit. The basic rate of UC must be increased.

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Welfare system failing the sick and the taxpayer, says employment minister

A green paper on welfare reform is due next year and is expected to address issues with benefit claims

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Tom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The minimum wage will increase by 6.7% next year The state pension will increase by 4.1% But benefit rates, which already fall the furthest from ensuring people can afford the essentials, will only increase by 1.7% due to being pegged to September's inflation rate, which was anomalously low

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Independent Food Aid Network @ifanuk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Important intervention from @antoniabance.bsky.social on the #UniversalCredit uplift and the forthcoming review at today's Westminster Hall debate at 10.36.20. This #cashfirst measure reduced severe/ moderate food insecurity in households on #UniversalCredit by 16% parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

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Independent Food Aid Network @ifanuk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Read about the Independent Food Aid Network's #cashfirst calls in our briefing Eradicating food insecurity while ending the need for food banks and other forms of charitable food aid in the UK ➡️ bit.ly/4fQ5YxA IFAN is calling for immediate, #cashfirst actions to reduce severe food insecurity...

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Abby Preston @abbypreston01.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Blue sky on Bluesky (sorry everyone)

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Shocking news. 36% of UK children are living in poverty according to the latest Social Metrics Commission research (I am one of the Commissioners) www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Graph showing poverty levels including child poverty reaching 36%

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Carri Swann @carriswann.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Great thread

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Abby Preston @abbypreston01.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This platform feels like everyone going to university and “reinventing themselves”

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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

And so it begins again...the glorious circle of life...

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