The British Psychological Society (BPS) has warned of a potential mental health crisis this winter as it publishes new figures that reveal one in two people are experiencing anxiety about being able to pay their bills as a result of the cost of living crisis.
The campaign, which was kicked off with a proposal at Brighton & Hove City Council’s Policy & Resources Committee to target hardship funding towards tackling period poverty, follows a recent study that ranked Brighton & Hove as the worst city in the country for period poverty, with almost half of women and girls in the city unable to afford basic sanitary protection.
A coalition of 44 community food groups in Brighton & Hove is this week calling on Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak to implement a 12-point package of measures to address hunger in the city
