A fair living wage should be given to all regardless of age

The cost of food, energy, housing and living is soaring, and the financial insecurity is far from over for those relying on foodbanks or being forced to go hungry.

- Lorna Slater, Scottish Greens MSP

Some 7.5 million people, including children, are living in food poverty in the UK and worrying about where their next meal will come from or how they are going to prepare it with the price of gas and electricity.

The cost of food should not be outstripping wages—food is a human right and should not be sold at exorbitant profit.

This week is Living Wage Week, and we are calling on the Westminster Labour Government to do better. The current system of minimum wage requirements, especially for young people, has trapped far too many in a spiral of low pay and insecurity.