Food banks give out record 3.1million emergency parcels - a 94% increase in 5 years. ⁦The Trussell Trust⁩ absolutely right to brand poverty a 'stain on our society' mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

Huge congratulations- such an important piece of journalism Louise Tickle and Patricia Clarke - highlighting the plight of some of our most vulnerable children and the scandalous failure to provide proper care for them.

Love this new film from our friends Shelter - we need a new generation of social homes to build brighter futures ❤️

A new group has been set up to “substantially bring down the cost of placements” in children’s social care and ensure “more suitable placements which are closer to home” - something we Become have been calling for - feels like a positive move.

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Pleased to be able to contribute to this piece by Anna Fazackerley - awful stories of young people in care abandoned in unsafe settings. This problem is getting worse and we urgently need reform theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

The Rwanda policy in a nutshell - absurd and inhumane.

“We’re ignoring children in need by ignoring children in care, we’re not giving them the attention they deserve, the most vulnerable in our society. It should be the highest point on the agenda of any government.” Hear hear ⁦lemn sissay OBE FRSL⁩ theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Good to see the issue of children’s social care getting more and more political attention. Thank you to all the peers who spoke in the debate yesterday. Now we need action.

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I don’t know where to start with this. The idea that we still have a strong welfare safety net is laughable. It has been steadily cut & cut & cut again. Now another proposal which will hit people already struggling to cope & push them further into poverty theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Today Become has published an open letter and manifesto calling on party leaders to show they care and make the reforms to the care system so urgently needed.

‘Rat bites and chronic asthma’: Horrific accounts of poor housing impacting children’s physical & mental health & ability to learn. We need urgent action to address the housing emergency & tackle poverty if we want to give all children a fair start in life theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Hundreds of vulnerable children sent to illegal and unregulated care homes - important work from our friends Together Trust highlighting this very concerning, growing problem. Absolutely shameful how we treat our most vulnerable children theguardian.com/society/2024/a…