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Higher power bills to 'drive Victorians to poverty'

The Essential Services Commission has put forward its final default offer for Victoria, leaving more residents and businesses out of pocket.

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Reversing Tory welfare policies 'would lift 70,000 Scots out of poverty'

REVERSING welfare reforms implemented by the UK Government since 2015 could lift 70,000 Scots out of poverty, the First Minister has said.

The National (Scotland)

Millions will face fuel poverty despite Ofgem move to cut energy price cap

Crisis ‘far from over’, warn campaigners as an estimated 6.5m households across Great Britain will still struggle to pay bills

The Guardian - UK

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Andhra Pradesh: Human capital investment will not lead to bankruptcy, says Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy

Education is the only way that brings the poor out of the clutches of poverty and guarantees social and financial stability, says Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy

The Hindu

Period advice now being offered by Amazon’s Alexa

Period poverty charity Freedom4Girls was involved in developing the new experience.

The Independent UK

Cost of living crisis leaving Northern Ireland debt clients with unsustainable budgets

"The debt we would normally have dealt with has been pushed down the pecking order and now it's about survival"

Belfast Live

Amazon’s Alexa trained to offer better advice on periods

Period poverty charity Freedom4Girls was involved in developing the new experience.

The Independent UK

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Headteacher warns some pupils missing out on 'fundamental human right'

Thousands of children in Merseyside don't have their own bed to sleep in

Liverpool Echo

Brits among most miserable in the world about their finances, survey shows

A CHARITY boss has said politicians must act with greater compassion and “properly protect” people from poverty after a poll showed people in…

The National (Scotland)

The biggest risks facing Glasgow council - including strikes, poverty and equal pay

The council has identified a total of 23 risks posing different levels of severity

Glasgow Live

Police commissioner kicks off North East mayor campaign with promise to fight child poverty crisis

After Jamie Driscoll made his pitch last Friday, Kim McGuinness officially enters the Labour race to become the party's candidate for North East mayor today

Chronicle Live

Period poverty leaves 500 million people in menstrual oblivion

Factors such as lack of access to clean water, sanitation facilities, and inadequate sexual health education perpetuate period poverty in India and globally.

The Hindu

Dublin food bank's future in doubt after being told by Dublin City Council to stop operating

The D8 Food Bank gives food to dozens of people living in poverty every day

Dublin Live

Shiremoor charity using life experiences to help fight poverty in North East

Support and Grow North East is celebrating a year of making a real difference to people's lives across the region

Chronicle Live

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The Conversation

Baboon bonds: new study reveals that friendships make up for a bad start in life

Childhoods can predict a great deal about how adult lives might play out. For instance, research has shown that people whose childhoods involve poverty, abuse and neglect have poorer health and shorter lives than those who have happy, stable childhoods.

Chronicle Live

“Why is this Government making it so hard for our kids?” asks Newcastle MP

Chi Onwurah cited a range of statistics that show the impact of child poverty in her Newcastle Central constituency

Evening Standard

Michelle Collins leads celebrities backing campaign to help disadvantaged children get free sun cream

30,000 bottles of HPF lotion will be handed out via London food and beauty banks for children on free school meals to use over the summer holidays through the Sun Poverty campaign

Evening Standard

The Felix Project and Canary Wharf team up to tackle food poverty

The two organisations aim to help tackle food poverty that sees an estimated 400,000 children in the capital going to bed without eating a proper meal

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Evening Standard

Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner are ‘Phil and Holly of British politics’, Oliver Dowden claims at first PMQs

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said the Conservatives were ‘stuck in a conveyor belt of crisis’ after 13 years in office during clashes at Prime Minister’s Questions

The Independent UK

Starmer and Rayner are ‘the Phil and Holly of British politics’, Dowden claims

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said the Conservatives were ‘stuck in a conveyor belt of crisis’ after 13 years in office.

Daily Mirror

Angela Rayner recalls 'sick feeling' of fear she couldn't pay bills as young mum

In a feisty PMQs exchange, Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner, who was a single mum at 16, said the Government was 'taking a wrecking ball' to measures to help kids out of poverty

Chronicle Live

Some Vodafone users will see Internet access disappear as network is first to switch off 3G network

Switch-off will affect those with older phones, sparking fears that more people will fall into 'digital poverty' after shutdown

The Conversation

NZ is finally making progress on child poverty – but a ‘no frills’ budget puts that at risk

Budget 2023 marks “half-time” for the Labour government’s long-term child poverty targets. It’s an ideal point in the ten-year project to take stock and see what’s worked and what hasn’t.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the cost of living crisis: Labour needs creative solutions

Editorial: Rather than placing all bets on growth, the party should focus on the public goods and services that sustain our daily lives

The Independent UK

Nurses are living in poverty, says RCN chief Pat Cullen

Nurses are to be balloted over the prospect of further strikes after rejecting the Government’s revised pay offer.

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