{"id":7513,"date":"2018-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svp.matrix-test.com\/article\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T17:08:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T16:08:19","slug":"one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"One in three calls to SVP are related to food poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Foodgpoverty350_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Analysis of requests for help to the Society of Vincent de\u00a0Paul (SVP) last year shows that the most common presenting issue is food\u00a0poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Annually, SVP spends between\u00a0\u20ac11m to\u00a0\u20ac12m per year helping\u00a0households with the cost of food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Our experience shows that food is an area of expenditure\u00a0that families have discretion over on a day-to-day basis. It is much easier to\u00a0control the cost of food than the cost of rent, utilities or education for\u00a0example.\u00a0\u00a0So food is typically what\u00a0families cut back on when times are tough. Rising housing\u00a0costs means that this\u00a0is increasingly the case<\/em>.\" said Dr. Tricia Keilthy, SVP Head of Social Justice<\/p>\n<p>According to research from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justicematters.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vincentian Partnership for\u00a0Social Justice<\/a> the average cost of a healthy food basket for a two parent\u00a0household with two school aged children living in urban area is\u00a0\u20ac146\u00a0per week, this is compared to\u00a0\u20ac160 for the same type of household\u00a0living in a rural area.<\/p>\n<p>Also data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialinclusion.ie\/documents\/2017-05-18_SocialInclusionMonitor2015_rpt_FinalWcov_000.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Survey\u00a0of Income and Living Conditions<\/a> estimates that 1-in-11 people in Ireland\u00a0experience food poverty, which refers to the inability to afford, or to have\u00a0access to, food to make up a healthy diet.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kielthy said\u00a0\u00a0\u201c<em>While\u00a0costs of food have decreased in\u00a0recent years, some households are better able to avail of cheaper food than\u00a0others.\u00a0\u00a0People living in rural areas without access to a car can\u2019t take advantage of deals and offers in the larger\u00a0supermarkets and local convenience shops tend to be more expensive. <a href=\"https:\/\/safefood.eu\/Publications\/Research-reports\/What-is-the-cost-of-a-healthy-food-basket-in-the-R.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Healthy\u00a0food <\/a>is also more expensive and when you are reliant on a low income, a bigger\u00a0proportion of your overall budget goes on food. If you have teenagers in the\u00a0household the cost of food is going to be about 30% higher.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>As well as the\u00a0health impacts of a poor diet, we should also be concerned about the impacts of\u00a0food poverty on children\u2019s social, emotional and educational outcomes. When children\u00a0go to school hungry it has an impact on their well-being, concentration and\u00a0attention levels, behaviour, learning and motivation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>While the School Meal\u2019s Programme is a key part of the\u00a0response to this issue, we also need to look at longer term solutions that tackle\u00a0the underlying causes of food poverty. The inability to access a healthy diet\u00a0is a complex issue that incorporates issues low income, educational\u00a0disadvantage, lack of transport and the costs education, housing and utilities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection\u00a0is\u00a0currently developing a new National Action Plan for Social Inclusion and it\u00a0is critical that this plan is ambitious, properly resourced and deals\u00a0effectively with the issues low pay, the adequacy of social welfare, and the\u00a0accessibility and affordability of public services. In order to have real and\u00a0sustained poverty reduction, including food poverty, It is essential that the\u00a0plan has buy in and support from all Government departments<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis of requests for help to the Society of Vincent de&nbsp;Paul (SVP) last year shows that the most common presenting issue is food&nbsp;poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"Tribe__Tickets_Plus__Commerce__WooCommerce__Main","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-region-national","publication-category-social-justice","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>One in three calls to SVP are related to food poverty - Society of St. Vincent de Paul<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One in three calls to SVP are related to food poverty - Society of St. Vincent de Paul\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Analysis of requests for help to the Society of Vincent de&nbsp;Paul (SVP) last year shows that the most common presenting issue is food&nbsp;poverty.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Society of St. Vincent de Paul\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-04-17T23:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T16:08:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Foodgpoverty350_1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"378\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"225\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"svpweb\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"svpweb\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"svpweb\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#\/schema\/person\/6ce88244e82930b6852fec332da87f5e\"},\"headline\":\"One in three calls to SVP are related to food poverty\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-04-17T23:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-23T16:08:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/\"},\"wordCount\":497,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Foodgpoverty350_1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/\",\"name\":\"One in three calls to SVP are related to food poverty - Society of St. Vincent de Paul\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Foodgpoverty350_1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-04-17T23:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-23T16:08:19+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Foodgpoverty350_1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Foodgpoverty350_1.jpg\",\"width\":378,\"height\":225,\"caption\":\"A shopping trolley at a supermarket\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"One in three calls to SVP are related to food poverty\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/\",\"name\":\"Society of St. Vincent de Paul\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Society of St. Vincent de Paul\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/logo-header.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/logo-header.png\",\"width\":174,\"height\":100,\"caption\":\"Society of St. Vincent de Paul\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#\/schema\/person\/6ce88244e82930b6852fec332da87f5e\",\"name\":\"svpweb\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7bc124c61d6ec9b965ab83a5cc5ea81?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7bc124c61d6ec9b965ab83a5cc5ea81?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"svpweb\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/author\/svpweb\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"One in three calls to SVP are related to food poverty - Society of St. Vincent de Paul","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"One in three calls to SVP are related to food poverty - Society of St. Vincent de Paul","og_description":"Analysis of requests for help to the Society of Vincent de&nbsp;Paul (SVP) last year shows that the most common presenting issue is food&nbsp;poverty.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/","og_site_name":"Society of St. Vincent de Paul","article_published_time":"2018-04-17T23:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-05-23T16:08:19+00:00","og_image":[{"width":378,"height":225,"url":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Foodgpoverty350_1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"svpweb","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"svpweb","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/"},"author":{"name":"svpweb","@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#\/schema\/person\/6ce88244e82930b6852fec332da87f5e"},"headline":"One in three calls to SVP are related to food poverty","datePublished":"2018-04-17T23:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-23T16:08:19+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/"},"wordCount":497,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Foodgpoverty350_1.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/","url":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/","name":"One in three calls to SVP are related to food poverty - Society of St. Vincent de Paul","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Foodgpoverty350_1.jpg","datePublished":"2018-04-17T23:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-23T16:08:19+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Foodgpoverty350_1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Foodgpoverty350_1.jpg","width":378,"height":225,"caption":"A shopping trolley at a supermarket"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/one-in-three-calls-to-svp-are-related-to-food-poverty\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"One in three calls to SVP are related to food poverty"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/","name":"Society of St. Vincent de Paul","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#organization","name":"Society of St. Vincent de Paul","url":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/logo-header.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/logo-header.png","width":174,"height":100,"caption":"Society of St. Vincent de Paul"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#\/schema\/person\/6ce88244e82930b6852fec332da87f5e","name":"svpweb","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7bc124c61d6ec9b965ab83a5cc5ea81?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7bc124c61d6ec9b965ab83a5cc5ea81?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"svpweb"},"url":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/author\/svpweb\/"}]}},"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39787,"href":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions\/39787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}