Maria Mansfield

PhD Candidate, University of Leeds. Exploring Free School Meal families lived experiences of food poverty. She/her.

[Centre for Social Justice and Community Action @SocialJusticeDU]

For any new followers or others interested in learning about Participatory Action Research, we are running a free in-person introductory sesssion on 25 April in Durham. More info & booking here https://t.co/fgS9w3snQy #PAR

[Centre for Social Justice and Community Action @SocialJusticeDU]

Professor Tom Shakespeare delivering his keynote this morning at our #livedexperience23 PGR conference @SocialPolicyUK @DurhamSociology

[Maria Mansfield @Maria_Mansfield]

Overwhelmed and grateful to be among so many likeminds. Thanks @DurhamSociology and @SocialPolicyUK

[Centre for Social Justice and Community Action @SocialJusticeDU]

We are really looking forward to welcoming guests to our @SocialPolicyUK and @DurhamSociology funded events next week on 'Listening to all voices? The politics of lived experience' More info here https://t.co/bORBYEztjq #livedexperience #LivedExperience23

[Helen Barnard @Helen_Barnard]

Appalled by news today of a pilot programme with GPs 'prescribing' heating for patients with health conditions likely to be made worse by cold and damp. Further medicalising poverty and loading problems onto the NHS because of the failure of other parts of the system. 1/7

[The Food Foundation @Food_Foundation]

🏆 Our #EndChildFoodPoverty campaign which secured holiday food vouchers for children receiving #FreeSchoolMeals during #Covid has been voted Best Campaign of the Decade!

Read more and find out how you can support our new #FeedtheFuture campaign here: https://t.co/DI838U3P7f

[Ellen Milligan @EllenAMilligan]

A cracking and very helpful diagram of the breakdown of running UK appliances to help you through the energy crisis:

[Patrick Butler @patrickjbutler]

My @guardian story: Soaring living costs will leave millions on low incomes thousands of pounds short of what the public says is the minimum needed to live with dignity, annual @jrf_uk @CRSP_LboroUni living standards study reveals https://t.co/Yp5zSAJvew

[The i Paper @theipaper]

Food banks are so normalised that children see them like supermarkets, new research shows.

🔴 The @Feeding_Britain charity said it was 'utterly appalling' that food banks were becoming so normalised in the lives of some children.

https://t.co/R7QHZ2i6ZA

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Both chilling & horribly inevitable. We knew this was coming, it’s been carefully engineered by govt underfunding for the last 12 years. Now the convenient “solution” is self-pay.

Please *please* fight a pay-to-use “NHS” with all your might, people 🙏💙 https://t.co/kdCjd9rQwc

[End Child Poverty @EndChildPoverty]

Today we launch our Local Child Poverty Statistics, together with @JulietStone77 @donaldhirsch and @lborouniversity - shockingly 3.6m children aged 0 to 16 are living in poverty. You can see what the levels are in your area here: https://t.co/JfOFztbOUY #EndChildPoverty

[Maria Mansfield @Maria_Mansfield]

@RF59814447 Well done you - almost there 💪🏼 you're going to nail it! I'm so sorry we haven't caught up. My health hasn't been great. But if you have time, we should try. Happy to wait until you've handed in, if better. Good luck with the final push!

[Feeding Britain @Feeding_Britain]

Thank you @EmmaLewellBuck for raising concerns from our network on the numbers of children in poverty who are disqualified from free school meals, in England, due to the current eligibility criteria. Those criteria are in desperate need of review and revision.

[The Food Foundation @Food_Foundation]

'We need food companies who are prepared to show leadership on helping to tackle childhood obesity, and not act as a dead weight on policy intervention'

Our reaction to #Kellogg's losing its court case against @GOVUK
https://t.co/4eHf11oG2W
#Obesity #CostOfLivingCrisis #HFSS

[Sir Michael Marmot @MichaelMarmot]

The government, of course, thinks that healthy eating is a matter of individual responsibility. If so, why have obesity rates gone up? And why increased inequality in childhood obesity? A food strategy needs to deal with inequalities in healthy eating. https://t.co/IsOeWnWo1s

[Child Poverty Action Group @CPAGUK]

.@CovidRealities has been documenting the experiences of families on a low income during the cost of living crisis. Aurora is one of the participants, and shared the experiences below in an event with parliamentarians. 1/3

[Child Poverty Action Group @CPAGUK]

How can the relationship between the DWP and people claiming from our social security system be improved? Aurora from @CovidRealities shares her experiences and views: https://t.co/88gcchz8GO

[The Food Foundation @Food_Foundation]

800,000 children living in poverty don't qualify for #FreeSchoolMeals, while the cost of living soars.

Our young people at @CR2FCampaign stand with @BiteBack2030 to ask @BorisJohnson to extend #FreeSchooMeals.

Please show support + sign the petition ✊

https://t.co/pbc73ml4fF

[Changing Realities @changing_r]

Take five mins to listen to a vital account of the struggle to feed children during the summer holidays, which includes making snacks a no-go and watering down milk. Lexie spoke to @Sarah_Montague @bbbcworldatone
- 30 mins in https://t.co/nCGUyGZMFi

[Changing Realities @changing_r]

Free school meals are invaluable - it's a necessary aspect of being able to survive at the moment. Lexie speaks to @Sarah_Montague @BBCWorldatOne - live NOW