Motion or amendment: Emergency Food Parcels for Children
Motion or amendment by Mr Andrew McMurray on .
- MLA
- Mr Andrew McMurray
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 20 November 2024
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Emergency Food Parcels for Children
- Assembly identifier
- Document 418526
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Emergency Food Parcels for Children
That this Assembly expresses grave alarm that the number of emergency food parcels distributed by Trussell food banks to children in Northern Ireland increased by 90 per cent during the last five years; is further alarmed that the proportion of emergency food parcels provided to children is higher in Northern Ireland than any other part of the UK; is concerned by the recent report on child poverty from the Public Accounts Committee, which found that delivery of the Child Poverty Strategy has been characterised by failure; recognises that an adequate standard of living is essential for children’s physical, social and developmental needs; calls on the Minister for Communities to urgently publish the new anti-poverty strategy; and further calls on the Minister to work with the Department for Work and Pensions to create a progressive social security system that better supports families with children.
148 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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