Property News · September 4, 2011

Citizens Advice cuts threaten the most vulnerable


Impending cutbacks mean Citizens Advice cannot offer help and advice when it is needed mostAshleigh Atkinson has come to the Cambridge city branch of Citizens Advice to collect a food voucher. Once the voucher has been completed by his adviser, Harriet, he can take it to the nearby food bank and collect a box of provisions that will keep him going for three days.”There are two food banks in Cambridge,” says Rachel Talbot, chief executive of the Cambridge CAB. “I think it’s worrying that, in a city like this, we’re handing out food vouchers. A couple of years ago it would have been one voucher a week, but now it’s one a day.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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