Stockpile advice is not realistic, say low income families
"According to Prof Ruth Patrick, from the University of Glasgow, the UK government's guidance "will appear at best tone deaf and at worst almost insulting to the 14 million households currently facing poverty across the UK".
She is leading the Changing Realities project, and added: "There is a profound mis-match between this suggestion and the daily realities for parents and carers on a low income up and down the country who are struggling to get by, especially as costs continue to rise and the temperatures drop."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6x238kpxj8do
#Poverty #Inequality #DisasterPrep #UKpol
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