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Advice NI report on rise in foodbanks in Northern Ireland
Report’s findings include that -
at least 11 food banks have opened in NI in the last 12 months;
Trussell Trust food banks in Northern Ireland fed 1,538 people in the period April – June 2013; and
the reasons why people needed help from food banks included unemployment, benefit cuts and delays; indebtedness, illness and disability; an inability to budget and manage money.
http://www.adviceni.net/publications/index.cfm/pckey/6/pub_key/220
After watching the disgraceful behavior Esther McVey and IDS in the debate on Food Poverty in The Commons last Wednesday, when they left after only one hour, I have started a petition asking them to publish a report regarding Food Poverty, that they have been sitting on since June.
I for one would like to see this report that has take so long to make “an appropriate review and quality assurance process.”—[Official Report, House of Lords, 26 November 2013; Vol. 749, c. 1293.]”
Please sign and share if you can.