Poverty in Kent

Poverty in Kent

[Dominic @SingleDadSW Watters @SingleDadSW]

Both humbled and excited to speak up for unheard and oppressed communities at this years #OFC25 🙏🌆🔊 #foodinsecurity

[Oxford Farming Conference @oxfordfarming]

⭐Speaker Spotlight for #OFC25⭐

🗣️Introducing Dominic Watters @SingleDadSW🤩

To view the full bio and list of speakers, head to our website👇https://t.co/cDatDBKaUd

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"In the Queen's speech I didn't hear anything that addressed that I'm living in a food and fuel desert in the garden of England."

Dominic Watters says he is 'gripped with a sense of despair' because of the cost of living crisis.

#KayBurley: https://t.co/N18SeYdwk0

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Warning: Miss one month’s council tax payment & it could ask you to pay the whole year bill within weeks. Council tax debt collection is far worse than finance firms. It’s destructive especially for those with mental health issues. My speech at @MMHPI campaign launch

[Child Poverty Action Group @CPAGUK]

Less than 7 days until our London Welfare Rights Conference. Book one of our final places today: https://t.co/JwZI72eUoZ

[Dominic @SingleDadSW Watters @SingleDadSW]

“@RosieDuffield1 this is a food desert in the Garden of England, and you can do someone about it.”

#foodpoverty #healthinequalty #councilestate #hungergames #singledad #change? @vicderbyshire

[Dominic @SingleDadSW Watters @SingleDadSW]

“Lived Vs Living Eperience” My new article on the barriers in the way of the poor, where I quote both Kendrick Lamar (2024) and The Bible, has just been published by the British Journal of Social Work, Oxford University Press and its open access 🌆 📝 ⬇️

https://t.co/6ENWDyN2QH

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: An urgent health warning has been issued after an E.coli outbreak was linked to a "nationally distributed food item"

https://t.co/DcZvT4ppRU

[Dominic @SingleDadSW Watters @SingleDadSW]

There’s a social work conference in Edinburgh on 16th & 17th and I have funding for the train travel but no where to stay. Is there anyone who could help out with a Travelodge or something?

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

"I was always silenced by snobbery" - Dominic Watters.

@SingleDadSW speaks with @aiannucci, @anoosh_c and @adribuller about the psychological "straightjacket" that poverty placed him.

Listen to the full podcast here: https://t.co/1Z0m2w8LuX

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

This week’s cover story: The trauma ward by @hannahsbee

Inside:
• @LordRickettsP: The UK must stop arming Israel
• @Anoosh_C: How Britain legalised crime
• @AndrewMarr9: Labour’s foreign policy factory

https://t.co/ihAOZSoI8m

[Dominic @SingleDadSW Watters @SingleDadSW]

Talking #foodinsecurity from my council estate has made the 6 o’clock news (in Holland) @NoS

[Dominic @SingleDadSW Watters @SingleDadSW]

Love you Middlesbrough 🍽️#24CarrotGold #FoodInsecurity #CouncilEstateSpeaker

[Dominic @SingleDadSW Watters @SingleDadSW]

Thank you @Ed_Stafford & @Channel4 for highlighting the challenge council estate families face around food & fuel insecurity, something that has somehow been missed by social work frameworks and policy makers 🤢
https://t.co/SQA67X1LCf

#sickofthisshxt

[Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf_uk]

🚨In the UK, men and women in the poorest fifth of the population are twice as likely to be at risk of developing mental health problems as those on an average income.

That’s why we are writing to @TheTimes, calling on all parties to commit to reducing health inequalities 🔽

[The Food Foundation @Food_Foundation]

🗣️ 'The #Budget2024 will do nothing to alleviate the sense of despair in council estates up and down the country'

Our Food Ambassador @SingleDadSW speaking to @annacookson on @BBCRadioKent

Listen in full: https://t.co/twDm5UbirR
#FoodisCare #foodinsecurity

[ITV News @itvnews]

After years of rising prices, there’s more to come as foods that were once everyday seem more like luxuries for millions, writes ITV News Consumer Editor @Chrisitv https://t.co/NlT0gH5Nxu

[Dominic @SingleDadSW Watters @SingleDadSW]

TV news editor came to my council estate to talk cost of living and left saying I should start my own YouTube channel ..here goes

https://t.co/lJlHdUGKYz

[The Sir Michael Marmot Institute of Health Equity @marmotihe]

Read our latest report on #coldhomes and #healthinequalities with @friends_earth.

https://t.co/Mk0YZ6iYXF

[Canterbury FoodBank @FoodBankCBury]

This weeks most needed items #foodbankfriday #canterbury