living costs

Smethwick Church Action Network (CAN) has set up the Smethwick pantry, to be run and used by local people, at Smethwick Library. The project is the latest in the growing Your Local Pantry network nationally, and the third in the Midlands.

The Committee is already hearing of families left with so little their children are being taken into care because of neglect.

Trussell Trust says foodbanks cannot continue to pick up the pieces, we have to make sure our benefits system can protect people from hunger.