{"id":816045,"date":"2026-10-28T01:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816045\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:56:10","slug":"emergency-supplies-advice-is-not-realistic-say-low-income-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816045\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency supplies advice is not realistic, say low income families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Samantha takes part in Changing Realities, a collaboration between more than 200 parents and carers on a low income from across the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has torches and blankets already and never lets food in the house completely run out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But her autistic son&#8217;s safe foods require a fridge and freezer, and she worries if an emergency did happen, he would not be able to eat the tinned food if she did buy it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead, they would need to rely on other items in the cupboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You may not feel very well after a few days but you can last more than three without eating,&#8221; Samantha said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But you can&#8217;t last very long without water, she believes, so that is what she will prioritise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to University of Glasgow professor Ruth Patrick, the UK government&#8217;s guidance &#8220;will appear at best tone deaf and at worst almost insulting to the 14 million households currently facing poverty across the UK&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is leading the Changing Realities project, and added: &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samantha takes part in Changing Realities, a collaboration between more than 200 parents and carers on a low&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-816045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}