The Food and Work network (FAWN) brings together academics, trade unionists and community campaigners seeking to understand the connections between structural food inequalities and working conditions in the UK.
Professor Kevin Morgan from Cardiff University summarises the core arguments of his new book, Serving the Public.
Amid challenging socio-economic conditions, deepening inequalities, and rising living costs, our responsibility to produce solutions to basic needs—guided by the people-oriented and solidarity-based principles of social democratic municipalism—has become more important than ever. This guide analyzes, through a holistic lens, the social food and nutrition support programs implemented by Republican People’s Party municipalities with this sense of responsibility. Among these programs, City Restaurants stand out by departing from the traditional soup kitchen model and serving as a social support mechanism not only for those in absolute poverty but also for broader segments affected by new forms of urban poverty, such as students, retirees, and low-wage workers
Since 2021, Aberlour Children’s Charity has conducted research into the levels of debt to public bodies (or ‘public debt’) such as council tax, housing arrears and even school meal debt, facing families in Scotland. Our evidence and research has shown that public debt is a key contributing factor to levels of child poverty, and trapping families in poverty