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This is how Andy Burnham’s government could end the need for food banks

This is how Andy Burnham’s government could end the need for food banks

The Labour manifesto promised to end the need for mass dependence on emergency food parcels in the UK. Heather Buckingham, social change advisor at Trussell, has written about how it could achieve this in her new book: A Taste for Change

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