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March 2025
Used By: How Businesses Dump Their Waste on Food Charities Feedback
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November 2024
‘Worrying About Money?’ Evaluation ScotCen
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July 2024
Relationships between income and healthy life expectancy by local authority The Health Foundation
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May 2024
Food banks in the UK briefing Brigid Francis-Devine
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March 2024
Food Insecurity Pilot report Citizens Advice Scotland
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March 2024
Cash First Approaches Trussell
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March 2024
Vouchers for Families - Pilot Project Evaluation University of Chester
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February 2024
'Cash first' support for families struggling with high baby formula costs in Scotland Sky News
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February 2024
Guide to Responding to and Preventing Infant Food Insecurity in Scotland Scottish Government
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February 2024
What can community food initiatives do to support cash first approaches to food insecurity? Public Health Scotland
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December 2023
Cash First: information, toolkit and resources Edinburgh Community Food and IFAN
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June 2023
Cash-First: Towards ending the need for food banks in Scotland Scottish Government
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June 2023
Briefing: Food insecurity – what can local government do? The Health Foundation
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March 2023
Shopping Card Pilot Final Evaluation Citizens Advice Scotland
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March 2023
Cost of Living Crisis - A spotlight on rural communities Chartered Institute of Housing
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March 2023
Cash or food? Exploring effective responses to destitution (Final inquiry report)
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February 2023
Building Cash First: Sharing local lessons on reducing the need for charitable food aid IFAN
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December 2022
Cost of living: The healthcare ecosystem UK Parliament
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December 2022
Diet-related Health Inequalities UK Parliament
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November 2022
Statement from Health & Wellbeing Board on the health impact of poverty and the cost of living crisis Oldham Council
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November 2022
Cash-first approaches to supporting people facing financial hardship locally: a literature review Trussell
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October 2022
Food bank demand and the rising cost of living Aleksandra Gorb
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October 2022
New 'worrying about money?' support tool launched in Moray Moray Council
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October 2022
Consultation Analysis: Draft Plan on Ending the Need for Food Banks Scottish Government
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October 2022
Economy Committee: London's missing meals
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September 2022
FILL: Time to measure and monitor local food insecurity FILL
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September 2022
Winter support fund: summary of local action to tackle financial insecurity Scottish Government
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August 2022
Worrying about money? leaflet launched North Somerset Council
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August 2022
Mapping and monitoring responses to the risk of rising food insecurity during the COVID-19 crisis across the UK Loopstra, et al.
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July 2022
An evaluation of the Leeds City Council cash grant pilot programme Vantage Point Research
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July 2022
Young, homeless and hungry: The impact of food insecurity on vulnerable young people
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June 2022
Feeding the future? Evidence on Food Insecurity in the UK Jasmine Fledderjohann, Amy Clair, and Bran Knowles
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December 2021
Financial Hardship Policy Briefing: Learning from the British Red Cross Covid-19 Hardship Fund British Red Cross
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December 2021
Event summary: the safety net beneath the safety net North East Child Poverty Commission
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December 2021
Glasgow, Tackling Food Poverty with a City Plan - Pathways to a Just Recovery
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November 2021
The case for cash first – moving on from vouchers and food parcels as a response to food insecurity IFAN
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November 2021
Cash first: the LCC pilot Legendary Community Club
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November 2021
Worrying About Money?: Scotland's cash first referral leaflet – impact findings ScotCen
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November 2021
Dignity in Practice Learning Events Nourish Scotland
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October 2021
Ending the need for food banks: consultation on a draft national plan Scottish Government
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October 2021
The safety new beneath the safety net? North East Child Poverty Commission
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July 2021
An independent review for Government: the plan National Food Strategy
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June 2021
Promoting a ‘cash first’ approach to food insecurity in Scotland: Lessons from developing ‘Worrying About Money?’ leaflets IFAN and Nourish Scotland
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May 2021
Work and Pensions Select Committee: Children in Poverty: Measurement and Targets Sabine Goodwin
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May 2021
State of Hunger 2021: Building the evidence on poverty, destitution, and food insecurity in the UK
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March 2021
Mapping responses to risk of rising food insecurity during the Covid-19 crisis across the UK Hannah Lambie-Mumford, Rachel Loopstra, Katy Gordon
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December 2020
Give Directly - Research on cash transfers GiveDirectly
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December 2020
Strengthening the role of local welfare assistance Greater Manchester Poverty Action
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November 2020
Response, Resilience and Recovery: London’s Food Response to Covid-19 Sustain
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October 2020
Westminster Hall Debate
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August 2020
‘Cash first’ - Responding to the needs of low income residents through the provision of local welfare support Greater Manchester Poverty Action
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July 2020
Work and Pensions Select Committee
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July 2020
Good Practice Guide: Delivering Financial Hardship Support Schemes Local Government Association
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July 2020
Food banks and how the delivery of the Scottish Welfare fund can reduce the need for emergency food IFAN and Trussell
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July 2020
Covid-19 and food supply Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
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July 2020
Feeding the food insecure in Britain: learning from the 2020 Covid-19 crisis Margo Barker & Jean Russell
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June 2020
Cash in a Crisis: best practice on local welfare assistance for local authorities during Covid-19
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May 2020
UK: Children in England Going Hungry with Schools Shut
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May 2020
Increasing Links Between Humanitarian Cash and Social Protection for an Effective Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic British Red Cross
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April 2020
Food for vulnerable people in Covid-19 lockdowns: learning from Greenwich Sustain
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December 2019
Money speaks: Reductions in severe food insecurity follow the Canada Child Benefit Preventive Medicine
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November 2019
State of Hunger Report 2019: A study of poverty and food insecurity in the UK
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October 2019
Found Wanting: Understanding journeys into and out of food insecurity: a longitudinal study A Menu For Change
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June 2019
The Scottish Welfare Fund: Strengthening the Safety Net A Menu For Change
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May 2019
Food bank operational characteristics and rates of food bank use across Britain Loopstra, et al.
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March 2019
Guildford Food Poverty Report
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January 2019
At a Crossroads in the UK: Can charity and social justice co-exist in the response to food poverty? Alison Cohen
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May 2017
Smarter aid: Why digital cash transfers are the future Oxfam
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January 2017
The effects of DFID’s cash transfer programmes on poverty and vulnerability ICAI
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January 2017
Cash transfers: Help for those who need it most Department for International Development
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June 2016
Dignity: Ending hunger together in Scotland - Report of the Independent Working Group on Food Poverty Independent Working Group on Food Poverty
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May 2016
Cash-Based Approaches in Humanitarian Emergencies: A Systematic Review Department for International Development
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September 2015
Doing cash differently: how cash transfers can transform humanitarian aid Overseas Development Institute
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Helping families who request formula: guidance for food and baby banks Feed UK
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A Menu for Change: Tackling food insecurity in Scotland Oxfam Scotland
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Dignity in Practice Nourish Scotland
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Give me money (That's what I want): the case for cash benchmarking
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Food poverty: Households, food banks and free school meals
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Food insecurity in times of Covid-19 – an insight into a deepening crisis UWS-Oxfam Partnership
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Food Banks, Pastoral Power, and the Medicalisation of Poverty in the UK
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Monitoring responses to risk of rising food insecurity during the Covid-19 crisis across the UK
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The Impact of Covid-19 on the Trussell Trust Network
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Evidence round-up: Issues in recovery, food insecurity and learning loss
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UK: No-Deal Brexit Risks Hunger for Poorest
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Nothing Left in the Cupboards: Austerity, Welfare Cuts, and the Right to Food in the UK
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Food Supply and Community: Lords Chamber
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Food Banks: Commons Chamber
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Covid-19 update: In the House of Commons
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Food Poverty: Scotland. Delegated Legislation – in the House of Commons
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Devolution of Welfare - in Westminster Hall
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Food Banks: Scotland - Department for Work and Pensions
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Oral evidence session on Food Security - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
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Food Insecurity in London Report
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The safety net beneath the safety net?
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Food bank demand and the rising cost of living
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Food Price Inflation and Food Banks
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