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Referencing IFAN

IFAN submission to the Right to Food UK Commission

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Resetting local crisis support in England

The Crisis and Resilience Fund and charitable food provision

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Cash first but not cash only

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Second joint civil society statement on the UC Bill

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Office for Equality and Opportunity: Equality law call for evidence - Socio-Economic Duty

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Joint civil society statement on the UC & PIP Bill

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‘Worrying About Money?’ resources in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

The future of local welfare inquiry report

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Member Survey April 2025

Used By: How Businesses Dump Their Waste on Food Charities Feedback

Money Counts training in Scotland

Reducing infant and maternal food insecurity in the UK

Ending the need for charitable food aid

United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

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Member Survey August 2024

Food banks in the UK briefing Brigid Francis-Devine

Joint letter to the First Minister of Scotland

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Civil society calls on UK Government to allow UN food poverty envoy to access to the UK

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Member Survey March 2024

Building ‘cash first’ momentum while breaking the food bank paradox from the ground up

What can community food initiatives do to support cash first approaches to food insecurity? Public Health Scotland

Reducing food insecurity in UK households with infants

Reducing food insecurity in UK households with infants

Open letter on fair tax reforms

Member Survey November 2023

The Right to Food in the UK

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Open letter to the Chancellor on the Household Support Fund

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A Cash First Future

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'Worrying About Money?' Cash First Referral Leaflets in England

'Worrying About Money?' Cash First Referral Leaflets in Scotland

Finding ways to improve availability and access to financial support in Cornwall

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Member Survey August 2023

Member Survey April 2023

Reducing food insecurity in UK households with infant children

Cost of Living Crisis - A spotlight on rural communities Chartered Institute of Housing

Cash or food? Exploring effective responses to destitution (Final inquiry report) Trussell

Reducing infant and maternal food insecurity in Scotland

Member Survey February 2023

Urgent improvements are needed to the Healthy Start Scheme

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Member Survey December 2022

Member Survey November 2022

Food bank demand and the rising cost of living Aleksandra Gorb

Member Survey October 2022

Economy Committee: London's missing meals

JRF and over 100 organisations call on Rishi Sunak to honour his commitment to go ahead with the normal uprating of benefits in line with inflation

FILL: Food Insecurity Monitoring at the Local Level

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (EFRA) on Food Security

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Strengthening Local Welfare Assistance Briefing

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Mapping and monitoring responses to the risk of rising food insecurity during the COVID-19 crisis across the UK Loopstra, et al.

Member Survey August 2022

To the next Prime Minister Regarding Rising Energy Prises

Young, homeless and hungry: The impact of food insecurity on vulnerable young people

All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Ending the Need for Food Banks Inquiry: Cash or Food?

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Member Survey June 2020

Feeding the future? Evidence on Food Insecurity in the UK Jasmine Fledderjohann, Amy Clair, and Bran Knowles

Member Survey May 2022

To the Prime Minister on rising levels of poverty, destitution and hunger

To the Prime Minister on rising levels of poverty, destitution and hunger

Pushed to the Edge: Poverty, Food Banks, and Mental Health

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Glasgow, Tackling Food Poverty with a City Plan - Pathways to a Just Recovery

To the Labour Party Consultation on a Sustainable Food Policy

To the Prime Minister on the £20 cut to Universal Credit

How do immigration policies impact on food insecurity?

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Human Rights Watch Letter to UK Parliamentarians Regarding Impending Cut to Social Security Support

Secure work and a secure safety net

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Secure work and a secure safety net – a new role for the labour market and social security in preventing the need for charitable food aid

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An independent review for Government: the plan National Food Strategy

Using shopping vouchers instead of or alongside food parcel provision

Structural Inequality, Disability and Food Insecurity

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Promoting a ‘cash first’ approach to food insecurity in Scotland: Lessons from developing ‘Worrying About Money?’ leaflets

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Work and Pensions Select Committee: Children in Poverty: Measurement and Targets Sabine Goodwin

State of Hunger 2021: Building the evidence on poverty, destitution, and food insecurity in the UK

Food Abundance and Equality Declaration

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Mapping responses to risk of rising food insecurity during the Covid-19 crisis across the UK Hannah Lambie-Mumford, Rachel Loopstra, Katy Gordon

Structural Inequalities

Structural Inequalities and the Growing Need for Food Aid

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Local lifelines – the case for reinvigorating local welfare assistance beyond COVID-19

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To the Chancellor Regarding Funding at Budget 2021 for local welfare provision

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To the Prime Minister and Government on the food emergency

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To the Prime Minster on urgent need to reduce food aid

Member Survey December 2020 II

Member Survey December 2020

Letter to Gavin Williamson MP: fund free school meals over Christmas

Letter to Gavin Williamson MP: fund benefits-related free school meals during October and Christmas holidays

Westminster Hall Debate

'What am I supposed to do? Is it destitution or prostitution’? Hunger and the need for food banks between March and September 2020

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Member Survey September 2020

Calling on the Scottish Government to incorporate the Right to Food

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Work and Pensions Select Committee

To the Prime Minister calling for legislative change to address poverty in the UK

Covid-19 and food supply Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Feeding the food insecure in Britain: learning from the 2020 Covid-19 crisis Margo Barker & Jean Russell

Member Survey July 2020

Cash in a Crisis: best practice on local welfare assistance for local authorities during Covid-19

UK: Children in England Going Hungry with Schools Shut

Submission to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

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COVID-19 learning and reflections: Use of shopping vouchers instead of or alongside food provision

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Joint letter to Cabinet Secretary Shona Robinson

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Emergency independent food banks ask: "Can we stay open?" as UK goes into coronavirus lockdown

A survey of food banks operating independently of The Trussell Trust food bank network

State of Hunger Report 2019: A study of poverty and food insecurity in the UK

To Michael Gove MP, Cabinet member with responsibility for ‘no deal’ Brexit preparations

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Labour Party Policy Forum

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Food bank operational characteristics and rates of food bank use across Britain Loopstra, et al.

Open Letter in the Guardian: Food banks are no solution to poverty

Joint statement on a No-Deal Brexit

Guildford Food Poverty Report

Charitable food provision as an emergency response

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UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

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Statement on the ASDA, FareShare and Trussell Trust £20 million Partnership Announcement

Food poverty: Households, food banks and free school meals

Food insecurity in times of Covid-19 – an insight into a deepening crisis UWS-Oxfam Partnership

Food Banks, Pastoral Power, and the Medicalisation of Poverty in the UK

Monitoring responses to risk of rising food insecurity during the Covid-19 crisis across the UK

The Impact of Covid-19 on the Trussell Trust Network

Evidence round-up: Issues in recovery, food insecurity and learning loss

UK: No-Deal Brexit Risks Hunger for Poorest

Nothing Left in the Cupboards: Austerity, Welfare Cuts, and the Right to Food in the UK

Food Supply and Community: Lords Chamber

Food Banks: Commons Chamber

Covid-19 update: In the House of Commons

Food Poverty: Scotland. Delegated Legislation – in the House of Commons

Devolution of Welfare - in Westminster Hall

Food Banks: Scotland - Department for Work and Pensions

Oral evidence session on Food Security - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Food Insecurity in London Report

The safety net beneath the safety net?

Food bank demand and the rising cost of living

Food Price Inflation and Food Banks

Protecting the future of local welfare to support individuals and families in crisis

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