Several prominent figures have joined the Manchester United star’s call for vouchers to be continued through the summer holidays.

Pressure mounts on government to extend food voucher scheme

Families may have avoided contracting coronavirus, but the pandemic is already having a deep financial impact. 

'I will cry when the hoover is on so my children can't hear me'

More than 186,000 three-day emergency food parcels were provided by food banks in the Trussell Trust’s network to people in crisis.

Over the last 10 years, the number of people who are in-work but poor has risen to eight million.

Dominic Barber has been forced to steal in the past just to feed his family. 

Campaigners have said the move will prevent children from low-income families from missing school during their period.

The findings are part of a UK survey of 8,000 staff ahead of the National Education Union’s annual conference in Liverpool this week.

Research by campaigners at the Bloody Big Brunch found 27% of women and girls had struggled to buy sanitary protection at some point.

Jo Jones co-founded the social enterprise after learning 37% of people in Britain go without hygiene or grooming essentials each day.

A major study by the Social Metrics Commission found 12.1% in the UK have spent all or most of the last four years or more in poverty.

Jobs with decent pay and flexibility are "few and far between" for single parents who are the main earner and carer, said the report.

A new report found almost one in ten parents said they had to skip meals in the past 12 months in order to pay housing costs.

Bob Geldof says G8 leaders are more than capable of ending poverty and that they have failed to adhere to previous aid targets.


ITV News exclusively reports on Bob Geldof's return to Ethiopia ahead of the G8 summit, who he has accused of not meeting aid targets.

Emma Murphy finds families around Afghanistan desperate to find a way to keep their children alive.