GOVERNMENT ministers in denial over links between benefit changes and shoplifting must “wake up and smell the coffee,” according to a North-East police commissioner.
Speaking during a visit to the Food Store at King’s Church, in Whessoe Road, Darlington, he said: “If they have been sanctioned for 13 weeks, how are they supposed to feed themselves? What greater evidence do they need?The fact that we need food banks is disgraceful, but what they are doing here is fantastic. It cannot be right that so many families in a town like Darlington are relying on this just to feed their family.
Speaking during a
visit to the Food Store at King’s Church, in Whessoe Road, Darlington,
he said: “If they have been sanctioned for 13 weeks, how are they
supposed to feed themselves? What greater evidence do they need?The fact
that we need food banks is disgraceful, but what they are doing here is
fantastic. It cannot be right that so many families in a town like
Darlington are relying on this just to feed their family.
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